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The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius

Speech, Actions, Superior

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Carl Jung

Children, Talk, Educated

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Needs, Lifetime, Thank

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Billy Graham

Pet, Gossip, Real

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
John James Audubon

True, Children, Knows

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant

Men, Judge, Heart

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Richard Whately

Good, Selfish, Neighbor

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will Rogers

Prayer, Lord, Rest

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington Irving

Love, Mother, Father

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

Life, Success, Secret

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams

God, Power, Service

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lost, Feet, Coach

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

Path, Door, Beaten

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Friends, Spirit

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost

Quarrel, Liberal, Side

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Chance, Universe

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird

Someone, Winner, Off

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli

Good, Greatest, Him

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

Courage, Enemy, Away

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu

Wise, Others, Treasures

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle

Character, Moral, Actions

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Fact, Ability

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Confucius

Success, Makes, Interest

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken

Religion, Respect, Beautiful

I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Joyce Meyer

God, Morning, Sunday

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin

Great, Mean, Doubt

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S. Truman

Fear, Mind, Nothing

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.
Michael Jordan

Best, Eyes, Scared

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

Woman, Made, Once

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