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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Robert Bloch.
The man who can smile when things go wrong
has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
- Robert Bloch
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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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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.
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
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese 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
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
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
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 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
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
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)
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
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.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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