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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Affairs.
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
Related topics: Motivational Life Human-Nature Psychology
You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability,
knowing that it is the nature of thought
to externalize itself in your health and affairs,
knowing that you are the thinker.
- Ernest Holmes
The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
When people get married because they think
it's a long-time love affair,
they'll be divorced very soon,
because all love affairs end in disappointment.
But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
- Joseph Campbell
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I desire so to conduct the affairs
of this administration that, if at the end...
I have lost every other friend on earth,
I shall at least have one friend left,
and that friend shall be down inside of me.
- Abraham Lincoln
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs
and does not help to solve them, is no religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann
There are four stages in a marriage.
First there's the affair,
then the marriage,
then children
and finally the fourth stage,
without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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)
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- 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
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.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
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
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
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.
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- 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
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
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.
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
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]
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
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
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
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
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
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
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