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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by George Savile.
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
Related topics: Positive Motivational Life Human-Nature Psychology Patience Perseverance Persistence
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
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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)
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
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 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
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
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
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.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
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
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)
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 wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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.
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
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
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
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
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- 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
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
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
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]
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