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

Him, Give, Chance

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln

Him, Young, Himself

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.
Steve Jobs

Saying, Done, Night

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton

Success, High, Measure

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.
Tupac Shakur

Special, Next, Answers

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Best, Him

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson

God, Mind, Against

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

Sleep, Wife, Humility

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali

Power, Win, Down

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
Abraham Lincoln

Found, Worse, Stir

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

Speech, Actions, Superior

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
John F. Kennedy

Today, Tomorrow, Living

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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy

One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson

Courage, Majority

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
Bob Marley

Destiny, Decide, Gotta

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.
Bob Marley

Battle, Victory, Talk

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain

Time, Cannot, Away

An honest man is always a child.
Socrates

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain

Give, Word, Spell

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard

Friend, Knows, Likes

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain

Respect, Heart, Himself

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain

Work, God, Tired

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
Milton Berle

Him, Congress, Lead

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston Churchill

Strong, Often, Silent

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare

Happiness, Through, Eyes

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

War, Him, Fails

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche

After, Religious, Coming

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain

Great, Old, Known

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain

Control, Greater, Laws

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Swami Vivekananda

Good, Money, Help

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