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Favors Quotes

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No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne

Related topics: Motivational Wisdom Purpose Life-Purpose

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons
out of the hands of fools.
Let's start with typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary;
new, universal, and more liberal laws
will begin to establish themselves around and within him;
or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor
in a more liberal sense,
and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
- Henry David Thoreau

 

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

If Hitler invaded hell
I would make at least a favorable reference
to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill

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)

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)

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

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

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

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

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

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 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.

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb

I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates

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 man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran

If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus

All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln

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 man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes

A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

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)

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart

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

For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

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

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

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus

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.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche

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.

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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.

How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley

To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

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

If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton


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