T Quotes
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“The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.”
“The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.”
“The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.”
“The man who is meek is not even sensitive about himself. He is not always watching himself and his own interests. He is not always on the defensive… To be truly meek means we no longer protect ourselves, because we see there is nothing worth defending… The man who is truly meek never pities himself, he is never sorry for himself. He never talks to himself and says, “You are having a hard time, how unkind these people are not to understand you.”
“The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.”
Source: Killosophy
“The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.”
“The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind”
Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers
“The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.”
“The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there is no security.....When there is no security there is an endless movement and then life and death are the same....The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.”
“The man who is not ‘sincere’ to others is not ‘sincere’ to his own self!”
“The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“The man who is poor in spirit desires and says with his whole heart, Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. It is as though he himself disappears; everywhere and in everything he wishes to see God-in himself and in others. 'Let everything by Thine, not mine.'”
“The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.”
“The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.”
Source: Don Quixote
“The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.”
Source: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“The man who is respected merely for being the son of his father loses one of the normal incentives to useful effort. He is likely to develop views of life which attach undue importance to the accident of birth and to think that by merely existing he does enough to command respect. He believes himself rather better than other men and therefore becomes rather worse. All distinctions not based upon intrinsic merit have this bad effect upon character and on this ground, if on no other, deserve to be abolished,”
Source: Mortals and Others: American Essays 1931-35
“The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.”
“The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.”
“The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
[Lat., Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.]”
“The man who is ruled by desire and enslaved to pleasure will make the one he loves as pleasing to himself as possible; and to a sick man anything which does not resist him is pleasant”
Source: Phaedrus/Lysis
“The man who is satisfied, because he thinks he is safe, who feels that he has religion enough, because he thinks he has enough to save him from hell, is as ignorant of the power as he is a stranger to the consolation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character
“The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a fight with dignity and pride. He is the true martial artist--a man so strong inside that he has no need to demonstrate his power.”
“The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.”
“The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.”
“The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.”
Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...
“The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong... There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated.”
“The man who is successful is the man who is useful.”
“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
Source: The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People
“The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.”
“The man who is the final arbiter in matters of personal concern is lacking in faith. Faith in Jehovah God includes confidence in him and in his channel of communication even when it seems weird. Recognition of His excellent pedigree as the Almighty takes precedence.”
“The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast, for his autonomy presupposes the resolution and disintegration of all system into its individual elements; such a man is liberated from values and from style, and can be influenced only by the irrational.”
Source: The Sleepwalkers
“The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space”
“The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.”
“The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities like a sailor who has just come off his ship; he has lost the sense of the human lot; he seems to look on you as if you were a "proposition" to be inserted in a syllogism, or an example to be put down in a notebook.”
Source: The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
“The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.”
“The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. [...] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. [...] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire...to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes.”
“The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.”
Source: The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ
“The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power”
“The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.”
“The man who keeps getting up each time he gets knocked down is far stronger than the one or thing that keeps knocking him down.”
“The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.”
“The man who knelt before her would have sprung from her needles, even down the ghostly flecks of silver in his hair. She had not known before that she wanted all these things, that she preferred dark hair and a slightly cruel expression, that she wishes for tallness, or that a man kneeling might thrill her.”
Source: Deathless
“The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.”
“The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
“The man who knows his limitations, has none.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.”
“The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.”