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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you'll help them to become
what they are capable of becoming.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is.
Treat a man as he can and should be,
and he will become as he can and should be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
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 man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
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