Quotes by Jean Anouilh

Every man thinks God is on his side.
- Jean Anouilh

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Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

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

Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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.

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham

Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff

All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau

If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus

When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus

Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung

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

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

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson

There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein

A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein

A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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)

Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden

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

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain

A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb

Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous

You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus

To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde

If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie