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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem.
It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time;
you can even fool some of the people all of the time;
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
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There is nothing wrong with America
that faith, love of freedom, intelligence,
and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere
to get American citizens to obey
the orders of constituted courts.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin.
And therefore, as a free man, I take pride
in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
- John F. Kennedy
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
- Winston Churchill
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem.
- Abraham Lincoln
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every citizen should be a soldier.
This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,
and must be that of every free state.
- Thomas Jefferson
One minute you're in the lunchroom at Glenwood High
and you ... blink and you're 40,
you blink again and you can see movies
at half price on a senior citizen's pass.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, or to put it more accurately,
ask not for whom the toilet flushes.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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)
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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
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
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
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
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
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
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's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
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
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or around him,
and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
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