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Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."

Related topics: Motivational Positive Inspirational Courage Success

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]

Quoting Quotes and Sayings

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)

What counts is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower quoting Mark Twain

To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes

The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha

Quotation Quotes and Sayings

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every book is a quotation;
and every house is a quotation out of all forests,
and mines, and stone quarries;
and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man Quotes and Sayings

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer

No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather

Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous

A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb

The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell

Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain

What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon

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

Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France

Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz

Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung

The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain

All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates

Give the right man two fishes and some bread,
and he will feed the world;
give the wrong man two fishes and some bread
and he will invent the fast-food fish sandwich.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
- Ogden Nash

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation,
man would still be a beast in the forest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Whenever I date a guy, I think,
"Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?"
- Rita Rudner

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha

A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill

A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man
is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

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

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50,
and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill

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

A man's interest in a single bluebird
is worth more than a complete but dry list
of the fauna and flora of a town.
- Henry David Thoreau

The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung

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