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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Tails.
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
How many legs does a dog have
if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child
could understand this report.
Run out and find me a four-year-old child,
I can't make head or tail of it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog?
Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped,
probably arboreal in its habits.
- Charles Darwin
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
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
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
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
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
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 is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
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 man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
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
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
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 man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- 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
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
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.
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
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
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
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.
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
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)
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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