Man does not rule the world. His creations do.
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The man is free to rule his world, not his world rule him.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
GROUCHO MARX If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he doe...
GEORGE LOIS Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.
JEREMY P. JOHNSON Don't be scared to death of death til death. LIVE.
CALEB FLORA Do not seek to rule any man other than yourself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters s...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Fear no man only the creator of creations
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
AGNES REPPLIER The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
AGNES REPPLIER The clear sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it
AGNES REPPLIER By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the wo...
LAO TZU Good work does not matter, because a man is judged by his worst output and another man takes all the...
RUDYARD KIPLING Whatever man does he must do first in his mind
ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.
ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forev...
ANATOLE FRANCE The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last foreve...
ANATOLE FRANCE The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last foreve...
ANATOLE FRANCE A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.
HUNGARIAN PROVERB Cognition reigns but does not rule.
PAUL VALéRY He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.
JAMES INHOFE My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule...
THURGOOD MARSHALL What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
ROBERT FULGHUM God does not need man nor his won works.
JOHN MILTON A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many thin...
COLTON He has no rival, no attacker, no enemy. His rule is unchanging and eternal, He does not come or go.
GURU GOBIND SINGH Every villain in the DC Universe wants something different, and not all of them want to rule the wor...
GEOFF JOHNS Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
ROBERT BROWNING The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.
MENCIUS God is the perfect poet, / Who in his person acts his own creations.
ROBERT BROWNING If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clea...
MEIR KAHANE Where God does not govern, tyrants will rule
WILLIAM PENN Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY What is a Man / Woman who does not try and make the World Better?
'KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ' THE MOVIE A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much th...
CRISS JAMI The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. -Menius.
MENIUS The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. -Menicus.
MENICUS A shark does not ask for permission to rule the waters.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO If a man does his best, what else is there?
GEORGE S. PATTON 'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
ROBERT BROWNING 'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.
ROBERT BROWNING The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptio...
MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if h...
BENJAMIN E. MAYS Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if h...
BENJAMIN MAYS The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
MENCIUS Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do ...
SAINT BERNARD He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
CICERO A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
MENCIUS (MENGZI MENG-TSE) “A man does not wander far from where his corn is roasting.”
ESAN MAGAZINE Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely d...
ALBERT EINSTEIN He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
ANTONIO PORCHIA Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him ...
MITCH ALBOM Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.
DEAN RUSK A true ruler does not rule others, he rules himself.
ANDRIJA JONIć There is no man in this world that does not have the ability to develop visions
SUNDAY ADELAJA A man who does not respect his own mother is absolutely no good.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB If a man does not love his work, he will definitely lose it
SUNDAY ADELAJA A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.
RALPH WALDO TRINE Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which He does not often do, His motivatio...
JAMES C. DOBSON Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does
not possess his estate, but his e...
LAERTIUS DIOGENES Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, y...
WILLIAM PENN One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.
JOYCE MEYER If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his reco...
GENERAL GEORGE CATLETT MARSHALL If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his reco...
GEORGE C. MARSHALL The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencie...
VICTOR HUGO A man enrich his community. A man teach and display leadership qualities for his children. A man by ...
CARLOS WALLACE Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for san...
MARK TWAIN The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
LEON BLUM You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...
GEORGE NORMAN DOUGLAS Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands,...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Who's the bigger person in the end? The man who allows his dog to do what he does or the dog, who gi...
BRUCE DERN A flower does not bloom for itself, but for the world; do likewise.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion...
MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door
CONFUCIUS The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his...
LAO TZU Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because sc...
JACOB BRONOWSKI Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world ...
MOLIERE Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
SAINT BASIL Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
BUDDHA Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA A man who has learnt little, grows old like an ox; his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
PERCIVAL ARLAND USSHER A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not kn...
ERICH FROMM Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not kn...
ERICH FROMM Most people will not stand up to injustice unless their comfort of living is severely threatened. Th...
SUZY KASSEM No man fails who does his best...
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CHARLES CALEB COLTON It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We ask advice but we mean approbation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man,...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its maz...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to r...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON