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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Henry Brooks Adams.
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks 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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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)
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
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.
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
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
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
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
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
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 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
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- 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.
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.
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.
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
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)
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
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
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