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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Herbert Sebastian Agar.
Man tends to treat all of his opinions as principles.
- Herbert Sebastian Agar
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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
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)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
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
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.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
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 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
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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.
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
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
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)
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
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
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]
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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