Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so
Thomas Carlyle
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THOMAS CARLYLE Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
THOMAS CARLYLE A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
JAMES A. GARFIELD A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil
JAMES A. GARFIELD Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Clarendon -Th...
THOMAS FULLER Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
MARK TWAIN If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a bra...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Well, let me tell you something; I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine and Governor. . . ...
RONALD REAGAN If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, I would appoint him secretary of state, and then Al Gore and I...
BILL CLINTON The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants
MARK TWAIN A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contrad...
THOMAS MALTHUS Carlyle! The man with a thousand faces.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and v...
BERNARD LEVIN Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably
tell you.
Ask him, however, why, an...
ANDREW LACK There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend
sincere enough to tell him disagreeable...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON It is not righteousness to outrage
A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
SOPHOCLES You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.
W. BRUCE CAMERON Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the trut...
OSCAR WILDE Roy just gave me a call. He had been talking to some friends and thinking about what he wanted to do...
JIM THOMAS Among individuals, the most certain way to make a Man your Enemy, is to tell him you esteem him such...
GEORGE WASHINGTON If you treat a man as he is, he will remain as he is; if you treat him as he ought to be and could b...
GOETHE For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought
with it the means of seeing."
...
THOMAS CARLYLE There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
IBN GABIROL There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL BEN JUDAH Even if he is more likely to be a Rehnquist than a Thomas, the downside of him being a Thomas outwei...
CHARLES SCHUMER He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him...
STEPHEN KING When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton.
THOMAS HALIBURTON Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid."
"What do you think?" his father as...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?
JOHN GUNTHER That broke him up. That really bothered him. He felt he had to help. He was a good man.
DAN KENNEDY Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a b...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE In my opinion, Zac Efron is a total hero. Him seeking help encourages other people with addictive is...
MARCIA GAY HARDEN When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and sk...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have ...
JIM BUTCHER [Khan] would do anything you asked him if you needed help. If he saw me digging a hole in my yard he...
THOMAS ADAMS Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
P. T. BARNUM Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become ...
THEODORE DREISER Their case is based on what he says and they want you to believe him. The man sitting before you can...
JOEL BENNETT I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the p...
LARAINE DAY Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy sou...
SOURCE UNKNOWN You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly...
H.N. BRAILSFORD if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which...
ÉMILE DURKHEIM Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will ...
GOETHE The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
ARISTOTLE Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.
J.K. ROWLING You're welcome. I was just trying to help.' Thomas felt like kicking him in the face.
JAMES DASHNER God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he f...
JENNY WEBER God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he f...
BENJAMIN TILLETT A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you...
LAO TZU The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devo...
GERALDINE BROOKS It was no accident that one of the first things God asked of Adam was for him to name the animals he...
JOHN KRAMER That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
EDGAR ALLAN POE An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
CHIEF JOSEPH Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You ...
HENRY MILLER Let me help you be brave.
LEISA RAYVEN Why seek help when you can become the help! Why wish for miracle when you can become the miracle! Yo...
ABHIJIT NASKAR True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is lo...
THOMAS CARLYLE No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
CALVIN COOLIDGE There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, ...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about ...
KONRAD LORENZ Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invis...
SAM HARRIS They found the manager of that building right underneath that blanket. His name was Carlos Garcia. H...
GARY MICHIELS When you look at a fellow, if you taught yourself to look for it, you can see his song written on hi...
AUGUST WILSON Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
HORACE A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEXANDER SOLZEHNITSYN A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEXANDER SOLZENITSYN A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Even you can’t tell yourself how to change, because you didn’t create you. To love someone is to...
JOHN ORTBERG He has become more of a man. You can see him competing with focused energy. He's going after it like...
BRIAN SMILEY You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within
himself.
GALILEO You don’t tell a boy that he is a boy. You simply act like a man.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. ...
AL PACINO Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of ...
FELIX E. SCHELLING Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he poten...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I learned very much from him. He was a man of great integrity. If he told you something you could ba...
CLAYTON DOWNING Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive...
HOMER A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and co...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and co...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has
become his intere...
MATTHEW HENRY He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.
KELSEY BRICKL He did so much for us. He evolved in so many different areas. We were just trying to use his natural...
LUKE FICKELL In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives ou...
GEORGE ELIOT Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man
MARK TWAIN When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE Terrible thought she was brave. She remembered it now, heard his voice in her head as if he stood ne...
STACIA KANE He is home now. He is free. History will record his worth as a leader. We here have long since measu...
RON REAGAN Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.
PUBLIUS FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS You can't touch me," I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll n...
TAHEREH MAFI There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck!
A man who's not afraid to say his say,
Though...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as d...
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THOMAS CARLYLE The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
THOMAS CARLYLE The heart always sees before than the head can see.
THOMAS CARLYLE Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage ...
THOMAS CARLYLE A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLE History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
THOMAS CARLYLE If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare ...
THOMAS CARLYLE No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of littl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLE Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony ...
THOMAS CARLYLE For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
THOMAS CARLYLE The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
THOMAS CARLYLE No violent extreme endures.
THOMAS CARLYLE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
THOMAS CARLYLE I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
THOMAS CARLYLE Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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