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Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
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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)
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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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
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's pride shall bring him low,
but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
- Proverbs 29:23
A man who was completely innocent,
offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others,
including his enemies,
and became the ransom of the world.
It was a perfect act.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Faith is a living and unshakable confidence,
a belief in the grace of God so assured that
a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
- Martin Luther
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
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
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.
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 hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- 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.
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
Man does not weave this web of life.
He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web,
he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Whenever a man or women is truly inspired,
it is because the same One Universal Spirit
is doing the inspiring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom.
The inherent nature of man is ever seeking
to express itself in terms of freedom,
because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
- Ernest Holmes
There is One Infinite Mind,
which of necessity includes all that is,
whether it be the intelligence in man,
the life in the animal,
or the invisible Presence which is God.
- Ernest Holmes
Before the throne of the Almighty,
man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions.
For God alone reads our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- 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
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
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
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- 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.
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
I believe in God, but not as one thing,
not as an old man in the sky.
I believe that what people call God
is something in all of us.
I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha
and all the rest said was right.
It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
- John Lennon
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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