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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Benjamin E. Mays.
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
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The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays
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)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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 is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
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.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
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
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
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 wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
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.
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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