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Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
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Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden 
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour
is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly,
until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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