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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Everett Dirksen.
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
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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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed,
and in such desperate enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar,
and the lightnings blaze around us
it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
- Luther Martin
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
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 [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
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