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Quotes about Traits
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Open Mind
Trait Quotes and Sayings
Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense
of what not to believe.
- Euripides
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 
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
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
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- 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
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
One may as well dam for water tanks
the people's cathedrals and churches,
for no holier temple has ever
been consecrated by the heart of man.
- John Muir
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
A man is incomplete until he is married.
After that, he is finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
- Mae West
Show me a man who knows his own heart
and to him I shall belong.
- Jewel
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
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
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
You can lead a man to Congress,
but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle
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
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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