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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

Mandela once told me that he lived on hatred when he went into prison because he was young and he was being abused and he was out there cracking those rocks all day and he said after about 11 years he realized that they'd already taken about everything they could take from him except his mind and his heart

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Man is a universe within himself.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.

Man is born as a seed; he can become a flower, he may not. It all depends on you, what you do with yourself; it all depends on you whether you grow or you don´t. It is your choice- and each moment the choice has to be faced; each moment you are on the crossroads.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Man is what he believes.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.

Many are called but few get up.

Many can argue - not many converse.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Many more things would be accomplished if we didn't consider them impossible.

Many of us squander precious natural resources -time, creative energy, emotion- comparing our talents to those of others. Today ask Spirit to call forth your authentic gifts, so that you might know them, acknowledge them, and own them.

Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means to be aware, and to try to help.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.