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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Employ.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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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)
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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 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
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
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 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
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
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.
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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 wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
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
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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.
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
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
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
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
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- 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
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
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 highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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.
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
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
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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