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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Lures.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Related topics: Values Life Human-Nature Psychology Buddhist Self Life-Lessons
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)
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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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)
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
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
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
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 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
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
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.
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
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)
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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 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
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
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
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
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
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 hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
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
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]
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
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.
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