Facebook share Tweet This Email this
May these quotes about Traits inspire and motivate you.
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
Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense
of what not to believe.
- Euripides
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Please sign-up for my Free Daily Inspirational Quotes and Insights Email on the form below.
Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
Thank you for visiting: Traits Quotes to Inspire and Motivate.
Please sign up on the form below to receive my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Get a Daily Motivational Quote each day by email. (free)
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and
other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.
You may read about our disclaimer, privacy policy, terms of use, participation in affiliate programs, copyright policy, and more.