Cheaper Quotes

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon

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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream,
the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter,
than the gloom of despair.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz

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

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

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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 is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy

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

Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

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

The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee

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

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

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

No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu

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

The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

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)

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

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

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus

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

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy

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

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

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

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

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

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs

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

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau

Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche

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

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

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie