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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Franklin Pierce Adams.
When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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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)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
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
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
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
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
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.
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- 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
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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)
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson
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
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
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]
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
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
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
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
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.
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
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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