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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by Henry Brooks Adams.
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
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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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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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)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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
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
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
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
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
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
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
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
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
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
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.
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
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- 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.
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
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
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
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
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)
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
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.
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
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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 great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
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
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
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