Conservative Quotes

A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard

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When you are right you cannot be too radical;
when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz

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

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain

Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb

The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee

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

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

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

A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein

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.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

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

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I submit to you that if a man hasn't
discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

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

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.

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

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

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

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

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

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

When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil

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

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

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie