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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Related topics: Values Life Human-Nature Psychology Buddhist Self Life-Lessons
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)
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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
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
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
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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)
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
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
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
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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 needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
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
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
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
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
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
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
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
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
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
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
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
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 man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
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