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Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals,
that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Real love is never a selfish emotion.
If you want something from someone -
especially if that something is sex -
what you are feeling is not true love.
True love is about wanting happiness for the person you love -
and not about seeking happiness for yourself.
Fortunately, in most cases our own loving presence
is the greatest gift we can give to a person we love.
Nonetheless, the litmus test of love is knowing
we would choose never to see that person again
if we believed that distance would bring them greater happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe
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.
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Lao Tzu
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Jealousy is a child of selfishness and distrust.
- Mourning Dove
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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)
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)
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese 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
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
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.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
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
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
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
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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