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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Seneca.
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
Related topics: Motivational Wisdom Values Purpose Life-Purpose
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca
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)
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
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 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
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
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 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
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
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.
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
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
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 is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
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]
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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 man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- 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
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
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