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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
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.
- 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
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge.
- 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
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Treat the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
- Native American Proverb
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Man tends to treat all of his opinions as principles.
- Herbert Sebastian Agar
I am fond of pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
The world is incomprehensible.
We won't ever understand it;
we won't ever unravel its secrets.
Thus we must treat the world as it is:
a sheer mystery.
- Carlos Castaneda
I, with a deeper instinct,
choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me,
who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,
who does not believe me naive or innocent,
who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Anais Nin
We are not what we are,
nor do we treat or esteem each other for such,
but for what we are capable of being.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet
as if they were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend to them all the care,
kindness and understanding you can muster,
and do with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again.
- Og Mandino
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
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
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
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
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
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
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
I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
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
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
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
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- 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
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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.
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
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
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
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