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A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali (world champion boxer)
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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
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
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
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
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
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
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
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
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)
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
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
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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