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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
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A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
Violence, even well intentioned,
always rebounds upon oneself.
- Lao Tzu
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When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
Not to dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The acceptance of oneself is
the essence of the whole moral problem
and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.
- Carl Jung
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes
is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others
shows that one's education is complete.
- Epictetus
If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault,
but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to take pity on you.
One has to have a positive attitude
and must make the best of the situation that one finds oneself in.
If one is physically disabled,
one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.
- Stephen Hawking
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't aim at success.
The more you aim at it and make it a target,
the more you are going to miss it.
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;
it must ensue, and it only does so as
the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication
to a cause greater than oneself.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Those who are dedicated to a life of wisdom
understand that the impulse to blame
something or someone is foolishness,
that there is nothing to be gained in blaming,
whether it be others or oneself.
- Epictetus
One's own religion is after all
a matter between oneself
and one's Maker and no one else's.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind;
it requires the same effort of the brain
that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
- Helen Keller
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep,
one must above all be a sheep oneself.
- Albert Einstein
When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every book is a quotation;
and every house is a quotation out of all forests,
and mines, and stone quarries;
and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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)
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
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
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
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 with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- 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
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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 man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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
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
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
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
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
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
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