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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Greek.
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Related topics: Wisdom
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
I am an Epicurean.
I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus
as containing everything rational in moral philosophy
which Greek and Roman leave to us.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every citizen should be a soldier.
This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,
and must be that of every free state.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
One minute you're in the lunchroom at Glenwood High
and you ... blink and you're 40,
you blink again and you can see movies
at half price on a senior citizen's pass.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, or to put it more accurately,
ask not for whom the toilet flushes.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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)
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
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
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
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
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
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
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 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
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
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.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
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.
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
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
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]
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
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
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.
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)
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
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