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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by Harold Wilson.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
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Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
A young man who does not have what
it takes to perform military service
is not likely to have what
it takes to make a living.
Today's military rejects include
tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
- John F. Kennedy
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
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 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
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
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)
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 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.
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- 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
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
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
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
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
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
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
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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.
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
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
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
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
The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
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