We’ve collected the best He Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Alexander the Great, Jamie Campbell Bower, Victor Hugo, Plato, Niccolo Machiavelli. Use them as an inspiration.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
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An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
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He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
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A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.
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Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.
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The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’
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I think every girl‘s dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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A director is the captain of the ship; he gets the vision of the film much before anyone else can. While I want to experiment with characters, I know a good director means I am in safe hands.
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
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I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
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Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
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A hero is a man who does what he can.
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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
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We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he’s not a villain. He’s a dude, just a guy.
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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
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I don’t excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
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A lot of y’all are lonely and y’all lonely because you’re overlooking a good man. Why? Because y’all wanna be with the hardcore thug. The man that is pretending to be everything that he isn’t.
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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
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In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
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God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
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The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
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There’s a difference between being a comic and a comedian. A comic is a guy who says funny things, and a comedian is a guy who says things funny, and he has a style and point of view that will last much longer.
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‘Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.’
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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
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Man is what he believes.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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He who spares the bad injures the good.
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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He not busy being born is busy dying.
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Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
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If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
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The foolish man conceives the idea of ‘self.’ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‘self;’ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
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He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
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And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.
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The fighter is born. He cannot be made.
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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
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Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
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There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself. I’m training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.
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At one point, I recognized that Warren Buffett, though he had every advantage in learning from Ben Graham, did not copy Ben Graham but, rather, set out on his own path and ran money his way, by his own rules… I also immediately internalized the idea that no school could teach someone how to be a great investor.
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Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
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The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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Anyone who said he wasn’t afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn’t shake but inside I was shaking.
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I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
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Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
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My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
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He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
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Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
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He who defends everything defends nothing.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Fereydun, that’s my dad’s name. My grandmother, my dad’s mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn’t his child, but he was still very supportive and said, ‘Hey, this is a great name,’ and so it stuck. So that’s what she named him.
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When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
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After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It’s almost certain that all those years of nicotine inhalation were a major contributor to his clogged arteries.
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
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If a man has been his mother‘s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
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To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he shall never receive it.
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
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A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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Every volcano is a powerful illustration of God’s character. He is a Vesuvius of goodness, life, and energy.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we’re pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker‘s praise without anxiety.
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He made the impossible possible.
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He makes no friends who never made a foe.
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He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
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The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
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In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero’s not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He’s one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart.
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
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God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
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I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
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Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
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The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.
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A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
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I’ve got the brain of a four year old. I’ll bet he was glad to be rid of it.
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A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.
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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
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A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.
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My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too.
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Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.
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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
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Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way – an honorable way – in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
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A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world.
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
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A good captain is great only if he has a great team.
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A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
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My dad said to me, ‘Work hard and be patient.’ It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
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The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
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My dad has given me the best gift anyone has ever given me. He gave me wings to fly.
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The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
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For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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He who is contented is rich.
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So I said to the gym instructor: ‘Can you teach me to do the splits?’ He said: ‘How flexible are you?’ I said: I can’t make Tuesdays.’
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
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No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
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Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
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Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
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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.
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The president can’t change the country on his own. But what can he do? He can give an example.
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
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What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
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When man decides he can control nature, he’s in deep trouble.
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Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‘I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.’ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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A man can do all things if he but wills them.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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He who is brave is free.
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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
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A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.
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A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
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One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
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Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.
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We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
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Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.
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There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
488
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
491
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he’s too busy wondering what he’ll do if he isn’t elected.
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It doesn’t pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he’ll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn’t say.
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God has no grandchildren. He has only children, so being a born-again Christian is not an automatic thing.
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God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!
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Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
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He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
504
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
510
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
511
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
512
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
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Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
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The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.
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My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
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The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
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The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
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Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.
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There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‘Yes,’ you know he is a crook.
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For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
