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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation,
whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,
and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose
to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -
and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
- Abraham Lincoln
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We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort
is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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.
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
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
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 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
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
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]
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)
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- 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
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
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
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
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 a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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