MacArthur, Douglas: It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. (Douglas MacArthur: U.S. Five-star General who played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II, 1880-1964) Categories: GOALS, WAR

MacArthur, Douglas: You are remembered for the rules you break. (Douglas MacArthur: U.S. Five-star General who played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II, 1880-1964) Categories: CHARACTER

Macaulay, Thomas B.: Shakespeare has had neither (an) equal nor second. (Thomas B. Macaulay: British historian, author, and politician, 1800-1859) Categories: LEGACIES, SHAKESPEARE

Macaulay, Thomas B.: The liberty of discussion is the chief safeguard of all other liberties. (Thomas B. Macaulay: British historian, author, and politician, 1800-1859) Categories: COMMUNICATION, LIBERTY

Macaulay, Thomas B.: The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. (Thomas B. Macaulay: British historian, author, and politician, 1800-1859) Categories: BEHAVIOR, CHARACTER

Macaulay, Thomas B.: The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. (Thomas B. Macaulay: British historian, author, and politician, 1800-1859) Categories: ORATORY, PERSUASION

MacDonald, George: To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. (George MacDonald: Scottish author, poet , church minister, and a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature, 1824-1905) Categories: TRUST

MacEwan, Norman: I do believe there is many a tear in the heart that never reaches the eyes. (Norman MacEwan: U.S. writer, Born 1943) Categories: SADNESS, TEARS, HEARTFELTEDNESS

Machiavelli, Niccolo: A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance. (Niccolo Machiavelli: Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who has often been called the 'Father of modern political philosophy and political science,' 1469-1527) Categories: INTELLIGENCE, SELF-AWARENESS

Machiavelli, Niccolo: Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. (Niccolo Machiavelli: Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who has often been called the 'Father of modern political philosophy and political science,' 1469-1527) Categories: APPEARANCE, PERCEPTION

Machiavelli, Niccolo: The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. (Niccolo Machiavelli: Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who has often been called the 'Father of modern political philosophy and political science,' 1469-1527) Categories: LEADERSHIP, POLITICS

Machiavelli, Nicoolo: Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. (Nicoolo Machiavelli: Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who has often been called the 'Father of modern political philosophy and political science,' 1469-1527) Categories: CHALLENGES, WILLINGNESS

Mackay, Charles: In nature, there is no such thing as death. From each sad moment of decay, some forms of life arise. (Charles Mackay: Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter, 1814-1889) Categories: NATURE, REJUVENATION

Macklin, Charles: The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science. (Charles Macklin: Irish actor and dramatist who revolutionized theatre in the 18th century by introducing a ‘natural style’ of acting, 1697-1797) Categories: LAW

MacLaine, Shirley: Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. (Shirley MacLaine: U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author, Born 1934) Categories: NEGATIVITY

MacLaine, Shirley: It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. (Shirley MacLaine: U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author, Born 1934) Categories: AUTHENTICITY, DECEPTION

MacLaine, Shirley: Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves. (Shirley MacLaine: U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author, Born 1934) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS, SELF-REFLECTION

MacLaine, Shirley: The more I travel, the more I realize that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. (Shirley MacLaine: U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author, Born 1934) Categories: CULTURES, FEAR, TRAVEL

MacLaine, Shirley: When traveling, you learn who you are, and are not, when you're splashed up against a foreign environment. (Shirley MacLaine: U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author, Born 1934) Categories: SELF-UNDERSTANDING, TRAVEL

MacNeil, Robert: Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer. (Robert MacNeil: Canadian-American novelist, retired television news anchor, and journalist, Born 1931) Categories: CHANGE, LANGUAGE

Macy, Joanna: The forests are my lungs outside the body. (Joanna Macy: U.S. environmental activist, author, scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology, Born 1929) Categories: ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH

Madame de Stael: A man must know how to defy opinion; a woman how to submit to it. (Madame de Stael: French-Swiss woman of letters, historian, and author, 1766-1817) Categories: GENDER

Madame de Stael: Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. (Madame de Stael: French-Swiss woman of letters, historian, and author, 1766-1817) Categories: POLITENESS

Madame de Stael: The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. (Madame de Stael: French-Swiss woman of letters, historian, and author, 1766-1817) Categories: GENDER

Madame de Stael: Who understands much, forgives much. (Madame de Stael: French-Swiss woman of letters, historian, and author, 1766-1817) Categories: FORGIVENESS, UNDERSTANDING

Madame de Stael: Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ and the difference of things which are alike. (Madame de Stael: French-Swiss woman of letters, historian, and author, 1766-1817) Categories: WIT

Madison, James: If men were angels, no government would be necessary. (James Madison: Father of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth president of the United States, 1751-1836) Categories: GOVERNMENT

Madison, James: If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. (James Madison: Father of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth president of the United States, 1751-1836) Categories: GOVERNMENT (U.S.A.), POLITICS (U.S.A.)

Madison, James: The power of all corporations ought to be limited . . . . The growing wealth accumulated by them never fails to be a source of abuses. (James Madison: Father of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth president of the United States, 1751-1836) Categories: CORPORATIONS

Madison, James: We are teaching the world the great truth that governments do better without kings and nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson that religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of government. (James Madison: Father of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth president of the United States, 1751-1836) Categories: GOVERNMENT, RELIGION

MAGNA CARTA: No one is above the law. (British principle of the Magna Carta, established in 1215) (MAGNA CARTA: ) Categories: GOVERNMENT, LAW

Maher, Bill: Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance. (Bill Maher: U,S. comedian, political commentator, and television host, Born 1956) Categories: TOLERANCE

Maher, Bill: Is hunting really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on? (Bill Maher: U,S. comedian, political commentator, and television host, Born 1956) Categories: HUNTING

Maher, Bill: Other countries may think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. (Bill Maher: U,S. comedian, political commentator, and television host, Born 1956) Categories: OPINIONS, U.S.A., VIOLENCE

Maher, Bill: The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough. (Bill Maher: U,S. comedian, political commentator, and television host, Born 1956) Categories: PORNOGRAPHY

Mahfouz, Naguib: You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions, (Naguib Mahfouz: Egyptian writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature who is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, 1911-2006) Categories: CLEVERNESS, QUESTIONS-ANSWERS, WISDOM

Mailer, Norman: As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery. (Norman Mailer: U.S. novelist, journalist, and liberal political activist, 1923-2007) Categories: BRAVERY, FEAR, TIMIDITY

Mailer, Norman: There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. (Norman Mailer: U.S. novelist, journalist, and liberal political activist, 1923-2007) Categories: STAGNATION

Maimonides, Moses: Hope is belief in the plausibility of the possible, as opposed to the necessity of the probable. (Moses Maimonides: Spanish Sephardic Jewish philosopher, Torah scholar, astronomer, jurist, and physician who worked in Egypt and Morocco, c. 1135-1204) Categories: HOPE

Maistre, Joseph d.: Every nation has the government it deserves. (Joseph d. Maistre: French philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat who advocated social hierarchy, aristocracy, and monarchy in the period immediately following the French Revolution 1753-1821) Categories: GOVERNMENT

Maitri-Upanishad: What a person thinks is what he becomes. (Ancient Sanskrit text) (Maitri-Upanishad: ) Categories: SELF-IDENTITY

Makhoul, Marwan: In order for me to write poetry that isn't political / I must listen to the birds / and in order to hear the birds / the warplanes must be silent. (Marwan Makhoul: Palestinian poet living in Israel who challenges Israeli policies and norms through his verses) Categories: PEACE

Malagasy Proverb: Words are like eggs: when they are hatched they have wings. (Malagasy Proverb: ) Categories: COMMUNICATION, WORDS

Malamud, Bernard: Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go. (Bernard Malamud: U.S. novelist, short story writer, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, 1914-1986) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, ROLE MODELS

Malayan Proverb: Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. (Malayan Proverb: ) Categories: CAUTIOUSNESS, FOES

Malayan Proverb: Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot. (Malayan Proverb: ) Categories: CAUTIOUSNESS, FEAR

Malcolm X: Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly. (Malcolm X: U.S. African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. 1925-1965) Categories: ENVY

Malcolm X: If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success. (Malcolm X: U.S. African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. 1925-1965) Categories: CRITICS, SUCCESS

Malcolm X: If you’re born in America with a black skin, you’re born in prison. (Malcolm X: U.S. African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. 1925-1965) Categories: RACISM

Malcolm X: It’ll be the ballot or the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. (Malcolm X: U.S. African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. 1925-1965) Categories: GOVERNMENT, RACISM

Malcolm X: The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. (Malcolm X: U.S. African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. 1925-1965) Categories: FUTURE

Malloy, Merrit: Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them. (Merrit Malloy: U.S. television movie producer, Born 1950) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS

Malraux, Andre: An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please. (Andre Malraux: French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs, 1901-1976) Categories: ARTISTS

Maltz, Maxwell: Our self-image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become. (Maxwell Maltz: U.S. cosmetic surgeon and author of Psycho-Cybernetics books, a forerunner of multiple self-help issues, 1889-1975) Categories: SELF-IMAGE

Mamor, Everett: We can learn a lot from trees: they’re always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward. (Everett Mamor: U.S. author) Categories: PERSEVERANCE, TREES

Mandela, Nelson: A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred; he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013) Categories: HATRED, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY

Mandela, Nelson: As I walked toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013) Categories: BITTERNESS, FREEDOM

Mandela, Nelson: Courage is not the absence of fear, rather the triumph over it. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013) Categories: COURAGE

Mandela, Nelson: Education is the most powerful weapon that we can use to change the world. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013) Categories: EDUCATION

Mandela, Nelson: Everything is impossible unless it happens. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013) Categories: POSSIBILITIES

Mandela, Nelson: If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013) Categories: COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE

Mandela, Nelson: It always seems impossible until it's done. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013) Categories: PERSEVERANCE

Mandela, Nelson: Money won’t create success; the freedom to make it will. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013) Categories: FREEDOM, MONEY, OPPORTUNITIES

Mandela, Nelson: Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013) Categories: GOVERNMENT, POVERTY

Mandela, Nelson: The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013) Categories: RESILIENCE

Mandela, Nelson: There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013) Categories: MEMORIES, SELF-AWARENESS

Mandela, Nelson: War is not inevitable. It is possible; it may even be probable; but it need not be inevitable. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013) Categories: WAR

Mandelstam, Nadezhda: I decided it is better to scream . . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity. (Nadezhda Mandelstam: Russian Jewish writer and educator, 1899-1980) Categories: PROTEST, SILENCE

Manet, Edouard: The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there. (Edouard Manet: French painter and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism, 1832-1883) Categories: COUNTRY-LIFE

Manikan, Rudy: If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family. (Rudy Manikan: U.S. naturalist talk show host, 1945-2023) Categories: EDUCATION, GENDER

Mankiller, Wilma: In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people. (Wilma Mankiller: Native American activist, social worker, and community developer in the Cherokee nation, 1945-2010) Categories: DECISIONS, GOVERNMENT, LEADERSHIP

Manley, Mary D.: Courage and clemency are equal virtues. (Mary D. Manley: English author, playwright, and political pamphleteer, 1663-1724) Categories: COMPASSION, COURAGE

Mann, Horace: A house without books is like a house without windows. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859) Categories: BOOKS, HOUSES

Mann, Horace: A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859) Categories: TEACHING

Mann, Horace: Avoid witticisms at the expense of others. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859) Categories: OFFENSIVENESS, WIT

Mann, Horace: Be ashamed to die until you've scored some victory for humanity. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859) Categories: LEGACIES

Mann, Horace: False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859) Categories: CONCLUSIONS, IMPULSE

Mann, Horace: If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859) Categories: FAME, TRUTH

Mann, Horace: To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859) Categories: PHILANTHROPY

Mann, Horace: Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859) Categories: PUNCTUALITY, SCHEDULING

Mann, Thomas: A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. (Thomas Mann: German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1875-1955) Categories: DYING, SURVIVORS

Mann, Thomas: If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. (Thomas Mann: German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1875-1955) Categories: OBSESSION, PREOCCUPATION

Mann, Thomas: Speech is civilization itself. (Thomas Mann: German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1875-1955) Categories: CIVILIZATION, SOCIETY, SPEECH

Mann, Thomas: Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. (Thomas Mann: German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1875-1955) Categories: MOODS, TIME

Manning, Chelsea: Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. (Chelsea Manning: U.S. activist and whistleblower. She is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act but whose sentence was later commuted by President Obama, Born 1987) Categories: PATRIOTISM

Mansfield, Katherine: Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing. (Katherine Mansfield: New Zealand modernist short-story writer and poet, 1888-1923) Categories: REGRET

Mantle, Mickey: If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself. (Mickey Mantle: U.S. professional baseball player with the New York Yankees, nicknamed ‘The Commerce Comet,’ 1931-1995) Categories: AGING, HEALTH

Maori Proverb: Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. (Maori Proverb: ) Categories: OPTIMISM

Mapaussant, Guy de: Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. (Guy de Mapaussant: French author, known as a master of the short-story form, 1850-1893) Categories: WAR

Maribel, Mother: So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us. (Mother Maribel: English artist and Roman Catholic nun, 1940-1970) Categories: BEHAVIOR, SELF-UNDERSTANDING, STUBBORNNESS

Marine, Joshua: Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. (Joshua Marine: U.S. author, magician, and lecturer) Categories: CHALLENGES

Marines, Marya: Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in a female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. (Marya Marines: U.S. Marine Corps data base) Categories: MONEY

Markham, Beryl: Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error? (Beryl Markham: British-Kenyan aviator, author and adventurer who was the first person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic from Britain to North America, 1902-1986) Categories: ERRORS, JUDGMENT

Markham, Edwin: Choices are the hinges of destiny. (Edwin Markham: U.S. social protest poet and Poet Laureate of the state of Oregon, 1852-1940) Categories: CHOICES, DECISIONS

Markham, Edwin: Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. (Edwin Markham: U.S. social protest poet and Poet Laureate of the state of Oregon, 1852-1940) Categories: DEFEAT, OUTCOMES

Markham, Edwin: He drew a circle that shut me out / But love and I had the wit to win / We drew a circle that took him in. (Edwin Markham: U.S. social protest poet and Poet Laureate of the state of Oregon, 1852-1940) Categories: INCLUSION, RELATIONSHIPS

Markham, Edwin: We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. (Edwin Markham: U.S. social protest poet and Poet Laureate of the state of Oregon, 1852-1940) Categories: GOLDEN RULE

Markoff, Barbara: Picture yourself placing your problem inside a pale, yellow balloon, letting it go, watching it drift until it is a tiny pastel dot in the sky. (Barbara Markoff: U.S. art consultant, 1931-2019) Categories: PROBLEM-SOLVING, PROBLEMS

Marley, Bob: None but ourselves can free our minds. (Bob Marley: Jamaican singer, guitarist, and songwriter, 1945-1981) Categories: ACTION, CHOICES, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Marlowe, Christopher: Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. (Christopher Marlowe: English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era, 1564-1593) Categories: LOVE, MONEY

Marquez, Gabriel G.: A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth. (Gabriel G. Marquez: Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927-2014) Categories: LIES

Marquez, Gabriel G.: A mother discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. (Gabriel G. Marquez: Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927-2014) Categories: MOTHERHOOD

Marquez, Gabriel G.: Fame is very agreeable, but . . . it goes on 24 hours a day. (Gabriel G. Marquez: Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927-2014) Categories: FAME

Marquez, Gabriel G.: Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. (Gabriel G. Marquez: Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927-2014) Categories: SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, SELF-UNDERSTANDING

Marquez, Gabriel G.: When a newborn child squeezes for the first time with his tiny fist his father's finger, he has him trapped forever. (Gabriel G. Marquez: Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927-2014) Categories: FATHERHOOD, PARENTHOOD

Marquis, Don: Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. (Don Marquis: U.S. humorist, journalist, and playwright, 1878-1937) Categories: IDEAS, INSTINCT

Marquis, Don: Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. (Don Marquis: U.S. humorist, journalist, and playwright, 1878-1937) Categories: PROCRASTINATION

Marryat, Frederick: Every man paddles his own canoe. (Frederick Marryat: British Royal Navy officer and novelist, noted today for a widely used system of maritime flag signaling known as Marryat's Code, 1792-1848) Categories: SELF-RELIANCE

Marshall, George: The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. (George Marshall: U.S. Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and Nobel laureate, 1880-1959) Categories: WAR

Marshall, John: The corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. (John Marshall: U.S. statesman, jurist, and Founding Father who served as the fourth chief justice of the United States, 1755-1835) Categories:

Marshall, Peter: Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. (Peter Marshall: U.S. game show host, television and radio personality, singer, and actor, 1926-2024) Categories: CONVICTIONS

Marshall, Thurgood: Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. (Thurgood Marshall: U.S. civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice, 1908-1993) Categories: HISTORY, POLITICIANS

Marti, Jose: A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. (Jose Marti: Cuban revolutionary, journalist, and poet, 1853-1895) Categories: POETRY

Marti, Jose: Barricades of ideas are worth more than barricades of stones. (Jose Marti: Cuban revolutionary, journalist, and poet, 1853-1895) Categories: IDEAS, OPPOSITION

Martin, Judith : It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. (Judith Martin: U.S. journalist, author, and etiquette authority, Born 1938) Categories: MODESTY

Martin, Madeline: Reading is going somewhere without ever taking a train or ship, an unveiling of new, incredible worlds. It’s living a life you weren’t born into and a chance to see everything colored by someone else’s perspective. (Madeline Martin: U.S. Canadian actress, Born 1993) Categories: READING

Martindell, Jackson: Capital is past savings accumulated for future production. (Jackson Martindell: U.S. financier, management consultant, and onetime publisher of 'Who's Who in America', 1901-1990) Categories: BUSINESS, CAPITAL

Marx, Groucho: The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. (Groucho Marx: U.S. writer, comedian, stage, film and television star, 1890-1977) Categories: FAIRNESS, HONESTY

Marx, Karl: From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. (Karl Marx: German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary whose name is associated with the social theory - 'Marxism,' 1818-1883) Categories: ACCESSIBILITY, EQUITY, MARXISM

Marx, Karl: Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. (Karl Marx: German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary whose name is associated with the social theory - 'Marxism,' 1818-1883) Categories: COMMUNISM, REVOLUTIONS

Marx, Karl: Religion is the opiate of the people. (Karl Marx: German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary whose name is associated with the social theory - 'Marxism,' 1818-1883) Categories: RELIGION

Maslow, Abraham: I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. (Abraham Maslow: U.S. psychologist best known for creating Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs, culminating in self-actualization, 1908-1970) Categories: OPPRESSION

Maslow, Abraham: If one is to be ultimately at peace with himself . . . what he can be, he must be. (Abraham Maslow: U.S. psychologist best known for creating Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs, culminating in self-actualization, 1908-1970) Categories: SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Maslow, Abraham: If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail. (Abraham Maslow: U.S. psychologist best known for creating Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs, culminating in self-actualization, 1908-1970) Categories: SIMPLE-MINDEDNESS, SOLUTIONS

Maslow, Abraham: In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety. (Abraham Maslow: U.S. psychologist best known for creating Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs, culminating in self-actualization, 1908-1970) Categories: CHANGE, STAGNATION, ADVANCEMENT

Mason, George: The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. (George Mason: U.S. planter, politician, and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1725-1792) Categories: INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

Masoon, Jeffrey M.: The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience. (Jeffrey M. Masoon: U.S author, Born, 1941) Categories: CHILDHOOD, DOGS

Mastroianni, Marcello: Accept me as I am; only then will we discover each other. (Marcello Mastroianni: Italian film actor, regarded as one of his country's most iconic male performers of the 20th century, 1924-1996) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS

Matheson, George: We conquer by continuing. (George Matheson: Scottish minister and hymn writer who was blind from his youth, 1842-1906) Categories: PERSEVERANCE

Matisse, Henri: An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc. (Henri Matisse: French visual artist, known as a painter, print maker, and sculptor, 1869-1954) Categories: ARTISTS, FREEDOM, ORIGINALITY

Matisse, Henri: There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look. (Henri Matisse: French visual artist, known as a painter, print maker, and sculptor, 1869-1954) Categories: BEAUTY, FLOWERS, INTENTIONALITY

Matthies, Kent: Know your truth and tell your truth. (Kent Matthies: U.S. psychotherapist) Categories: COMMUNICATION, FORTHRIGHTNESS, HONESTY, INTEGRITY

Maudsley, Henry: The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. (Henry Maudsley: British psychiatrist. 1835-1918) Categories: HEALTH, SORROW

Maugham, Somerset W.: Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, 18874-1965) Categories: SIMPLICITY, NATURALNESS

Maugham, Somerset W.: The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer who was among the most popular writers of his era, 1874-1965) Categories: DIVERSITY, UNITY

Maugham, Somerset W.: The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer who was among the most popular writers of his era, 1874-1965) Categories: MEMORY, MOMENTS

Maugham, Somerset W.: There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, 18874-1965) Categories: CERTAINTY

Maugham, Somerset W.: To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer who was among the most popular writers of his era, 1874-1965) Categories: BOOKS, READING, REFUGE

Maugham, Somerset W.: Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer who was among the most popular writers of his era, 1874-1965) Categories: TRADITION

Maugham, Somerset W.: We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer who was among the most popular writers of his era, 1874-1965) Categories: CHANGE, LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS

Maupassant, Guy de: Get black on white. (Guy de Maupassant: French writer, remembered as a master of the short-story form, 1850-1893) Categories: WRITING

Maupassant, Guy de: Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. (Guy de Maupassant: French writer, remembered as a master of the short-story form, 1850-1893) Categories: CONFLICT, PATRIOTISM, RELIGION, FERVOR

Mauriac, Francois: Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures. (Francois Mauriac: French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, 1885-1970) Categories: CLOSE-MINDEDNESS, HUMANKIND

Maurois, Andre: Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. (Andre Maurois: French author, 1885-1967) Categories: AGING

Maxwell, John C.: A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. (John C. Maxwell: U.S. author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership, Born 1947) Categories: LEADERSHIP

Maxwell, John C.: Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. (John C. Maxwell: U.S. author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership, Born 1947) Categories: CHANGE, CHOICES, GROWTH, INTENTIONALITY

Maxwell, John C.: The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one. (John C. Maxwell: U.S. author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership, Born 1947) Categories: FEAR, MISTAKES

May, Gerald G.: Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. (Gerald G. May: U.S. psychiatrist and theologian, 1940-2005) Categories: STUBBORNNESS, WILLFULNESS

May, Rollo: Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. (Rollo May: U.S. author, psychologist, and associated with existential philosophy, 1909-1994) Categories: APATHY

May, Rollo: If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. (Rollo May: U.S. author, psychologist, and associated with existential philosophy, 1909-1994) Categories: SELF-CONFIDENCE, SELF-IDENTITY

Mays, Benjamin: The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. (Benjamin Mays: U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader who is credited with laying the intellectual foundations of the American civil rights movement, 1894-1984) Categories: GOALS, PURPOSE

McAdoo, William G. Jr.: It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument. (William G. McAdoo Jr.: U.S. lawyer and politician who played a major role in the administration of his father-in-law, President Woodrow Wilson 1863-1941) Categories: DISAGREEMENT, IGNORANCE

McCabe, Joseph: An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason. (Joseph McCabe: ) Categories: CIRCUMSTANCES, IDEAS, INSTITUTIONS

McCaffrey, Anne: Make no judgments where you have no compassion. (Anne McCaffrey: U.S.-Irish writer, 1926-2011) Categories: JUDGMENT

McCain, John III: Nothing is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself. (John McCain III: U.S. politician and naval officer who served 5 terms in the U.S. Senate, 1936-2018) Categories: CAUSES, GOALS

McCartney, Paul: If architects want to strengthen an old arch, they put more weight on it. (Paul McCartney: British singer-songwriter, composer, bass player in the Beatles rock band, poet, and activist, Born 1942) Categories: FOCUS, EMPHASIS

McCartney, Paul: If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. (Paul McCartney: British singer-songwriter, composer, bass player in the Beatles rock band, poet, and activist, Born 1942) Categories: ANIMALS, VEGETERIANISM, SLAUGHTERHOUSES

McCartney, Paul: No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same. (Paul McCartney: British singer-songwriter, composer, bass player in the Beatles rock band, poet, and activist, Born 1942) Categories: JUDGMENT

McCartney, Paul: What is to give light must endure burning. (Paul McCartney: British singer-songwriter, composer, bass player in the Beatles rock band, poet, and activist, Born 1942) Categories: WHISTLEBLOWERS

McChrystal, Stanley A.: Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure. (Stanley A. McChrystal: U.S. Army general, best known as Commander of U.S. Forces—Afghanistan, Born 1954) Categories: LEADERSHIP

McClung, Nellie: Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women. (Nellie McClung: Canadian author, social activist, suffragette, and politician whose efforts were largely responsible for Manitoba becoming, in 1916, the first province to give women the right to vote and to run for public office, 1873-1951) Categories: WOMEN

McCord, David: Life is the garment we continually alter, but which never seems to fit. (David McCord: U.S. poet and college fundraiser, 1897-1997) Categories: CHANGE, LIFE, ALTERATIONS

McCormick, Anne O.: Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it. (Anne O. McCormick: English-American journalist who worked as a foreign news correspondent and was the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize in a major journalism category, winning in 1937 for Correspondence, 1880-1954) Categories: PEACE, POWER, WAR

McCrainie, Stephen: The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried. (Stephen McCrainie: U.S. writer and illustrator of an all-ages graphic novel series, Born 1987) Categories: FAILURE, MASTERY

McCullers, Carson: There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. (Carson McCullers: U.S. novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet, 1917-1967) Categories: CHANGE, LIFE, MEMORIES, SOCIETY

McCullough, David: History is who we are and why we're the way we are. (David McCullough: U.S. popular historian who was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, as well as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award (1933-2022)) Categories: HISTORY

McDaniel, Jeffrey: I realize there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go. (Jeffrey McDaniel: U.S. poet who is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Born 1967) Categories: NATURE, TREES, LETTING-GO

McDonough, William A.: Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. (William A. McDonough: U.S. architect and the dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, Born 1951) Categories: MODERATION, PATIENCE, PERFECTION

McEntire, Reba: To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone (Reba McEntire: U.S. actress and country singer. Born 1955) Categories: LIFE, SUCCESS

McFadden, Nancy: Climb mountains so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. (Nancy McFadden: U.S. lawyer and political liaison between the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the White House, 1958-2018) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, GOALS, LEARNING

McGee, Molly: When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason. (Molly McGee: U.S. National Football League running-back, 1952-1994) Categories: MARRIAGE, GIFTS

McGill, Bryant: Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. (Bryant McGill: U.S. best-selling author and speaker who champions gender equality, and the rights of women and girls. and girls, Born 1969) Categories: CALMNESS, CHALLENGES

McGlashan, Bill: Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead. (Bill McGlashan: U.S. businessman and former international private equity investor, Born 1963) Categories: PATIENCE

McGovern, George: I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. (George McGovern: U.S. politician and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election. 1922-2012) Categories: WAR

Mcindoe, Archibald: Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. (Archibald Mcindoe: New Zealand plastic surgeon, 1900-1960) Categories: CONNECTIONS, SUCCESS

McIntyre, Leslie M.: Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist—if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well-groomed, and unaggressive. (Leslie M. McIntyre: British writer, 1937-2005) Categories: FEMINISM, WOMEN

McKinley, William: The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. (William McKinley: U.S. 25th president, 1897, until his assassination six months into his second term, 1843-1901) Categories: ASSIMILATION, DIVERSITY

McKinney, Frank: Classical music isn't the kind that we keep thinking will turn into a tune. (Frank McKinney: U..S. Olympic swimmer and prominent executive in the American banking industry, 1938-1992) Categories: MUSIC

McLaughlin, Mignon: A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. (Mignon McLaughlin: U.S journalist and author, 1913-1983) Categories: BOOKS, CRITIQUES, WRITING

McLaughlin, Mignon: A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. (Mignon McLaughlin: U.S journalist and author, 1913-1983) Categories: MARRIAGE

McLaughlin, Mignon: Anything you lose . . . automatically doubles in value. (Mignon McLaughlin: U.S journalist and author, 1913-1983) Categories: LOSS

McLaughlin, Mignon: In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. (Mignon McLaughlin: U.S journalist and author, 1913-1983) Categories: LOVE

McLaughlin, Mignon: It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not. (Mignon McLaughlin: U.S journalist and author, 1913-1983) Categories: CANDOR, FRIENDS

McLaughlin, Mignon: It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. (Mignon McLaughlin: U.S journalist and author, 1913-1983) Categories: LOYALTY

McLaughlin, Mignon: What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. (Mignon McLaughlin: U.S journalist and author, 1913-1983) Categories: EXPERIENCE, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

McLuhan, Marshall: Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980) Categories: ADVERTISEMENTS, MARKETING, MEDIA

McLuhan, Marshall: American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980) Categories: DRIVING (U.S.A.)

McLuhan, Marshall: Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980) Categories: ART, PREDICTIONS

McLuhan, Marshall: Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980) Categories: CONFORMITY

McLuhan, Marshall: Technology is literally an extension of man, as the ax is an extension of the hand, the wheel as an extension of the foot. Communications technology, on the other hand, is an extension of thought, of consciousness, of man's unique perceptual capacities. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980) Categories: COMMUNICATION, TECHNOLOGY

McLuhan, Marshall: The medium is the message. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980) Categories: COMMUNICATION, MEDIA

McLuhan, Marshall: The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980) Categories: COMMUNICATION, SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY

McLuhan, Marshall: There are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew. We just have to act like it. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980) Categories: ENVIRONMENTALISM, SOCIETY

McLuhan, Marshall: We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980) Categories: TECHNOLOGY, TOOLS

Mead, Margaret: Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. (Margaret Mead: U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978) Categories: HUMANKIND

Mead, Margaret: If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so we weave a less arbitrary social fabric. (Margaret Mead: U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978) Categories: DIVERSITY, VALUES

Mead, Margaret: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. (Margaret Mead: U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978) Categories: CHANGE, PROGRESS

Mead, Margaret: No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded. (Margaret Mead: U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978) Categories: WAR, VIOLENCE

Mead, Margaret: There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman. (Margaret Mead: U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978) Categories: GENDER, HEALTH, MATURITY, WOMEN

Meagher, Patrick: Some people are so poor; all they have is money. (Patrick Meagher: Irish athlete who played in Gaelic games similar to soccer, 1890-1958)) Categories: POVERTY, WEALTH

Mecher, Carter: Experience is making the same mistake over and over again, only with greater confidence. (Carter Mecher: U.S. Senior Adviser for the Office of Public Health who devised strategies to mitigate the consequences of a pandemic and promote pandemic preparedness.) Categories: EXPERIENCE

Megahan, Kate: You change for two reasons: either you learn enough that you want to, or you've been hurt enough that you have to. (Kate Megahan: U.S. district manager of Faber, Coe, & Gregg for careers in retail) Categories: BEHAVIOR, CAREERS, CHANGE, PERSONALITY

Meir, Golda: Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else? (Golda Meir: Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, stateswoman, politician, and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel — Israel’s first and only woman to hold the office, known as the ‘Iron Lady’ of Israeli politics, 1917-1951) Categories: INDIFFERENCE

Meir, Golda: The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations. (Golda Meir: Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, stateswoman, politician, and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel — Israel’s first and only woman to hold the office, known as the ‘Iron Lady’ of Israeli politics, 1917-1951) Categories: NEGOTIATIONS, PEACE, WAR

Meir, Golda: Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. (Golda Meir: Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, stateswoman, politician, and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel — Israel’s first and only woman to hold the office, known as the ‘Iron Lady’ of Israeli politics, 1917-1951) Categories: EMOTIONS

Melville, Herman: A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities. (Herman Melville: U.S. novelist, short-story writer, 1819-1891) Categories: SMILES

Melville, Herman: It is better to fail in originality than to success in imitation. (Herman Melville: U.S. novelist, short-story writer, 1819-1891) Categories: IMITATION, ORIGINALITY

Melville, Herman: Nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. (Herman Melville: U.S. novelist, short-story writer, 1819-1891) Categories: BIAS, CRITICISM, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY, CLASSISM

Melville, Herman: Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. (Herman Melville: U.S. novelist, short-story writer, 1819-1891) Categories: PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY

Mencius: Friendship is one mind in two bodies. (Mencius: Chinese Confucian philosopher, 372 B.C.E.--289 B.C.E.) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Mencken, H. L.: A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956) Categories: LANGUAGE, NOVELTY

Mencken, H. L.: Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956) Categories: CONSCIENCE

Mencken, H. L.: It is inaccurate to say I hate everything related to politics. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956) Categories: POLITICS

Mencken, H. L.: Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956) Categories: CERTAINTY, SKEPTICISM, TOLERANCE

Mencken, H. L.: Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956) Categories: OPERA

Mencken, H. L.: The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956) Categories: AGING

Mencken, H. L.: When somebody says "It's not about the money," it's about the money. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956) Categories: MONEY

Mencken, H. L.: Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956) Categories: MORALITY, PERSUASION

Mendelssohn, Felix: Music is a more precise language than words. (Felix Mendelssohn: German composer, pianist, organist, and conductor, 1809-1847) Categories: MUSIC

Mendez, Robbie: The stories we tell reveal who we are and who we can be. (Robbie Mendez: U.S. son of Sylvia Mendez who in 1947 led a court case leading to the Brown vs. Board of Education case that desegregated public schools nationwide.) Categories: PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY, DESEGREGATION (U.S.)

Menninger, Karl A.: Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out. (Karl A. Menninger: U.S. psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation, 1893-1990) Categories:

Menninger, Karl A.: Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. (Karl A. Menninger: U.S. psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation, 1893-1990) Categories: LOVE

Menninger, Karl A.: What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. (Karl A. Menninger: U.S. psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation, 1893-1990) Categories: TEACHING

Menninger, Karl A.: What's done to children, they will do to society. (Karl A. Menninger: U.S. psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation, 1893-1990) Categories: CHILD-ABUSE

Menuhin, Yehudi: We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles. (Yehudi Menuhin: Belorussian-American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain and widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. 1916-1999) Categories: RHYTHM

Meredith, George: Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. (George Meredith: English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was a seven-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1828-1909) Categories: CYNICISM, NEGATIVISM

Meredith, George: Memoirs are the backstairs of history. (George Meredith: English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was a seven-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1828-1909) Categories: WRITING, MEMOIRS

Meredith, George: The well of true wit is truth itself. (George Meredith: English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was a seven-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1828-1909) Categories: TRUTH, WIT

Meredith, George: There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by. (George Meredith: English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was a seven-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1828-1909) Categories: LIFE, SUFFERING

Merici, Angela: Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force. (Angela Merici: Italian religious educator who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. 1474-1540) Categories: FORCE, INFLUENCE

Merriam, Eve: I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" (Eve Merriam: U.S. poet and writer, 1916-1992) Categories: WAR

Merrill, William P.: Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven't even begun to live. (William P. Merrill: U.S. Presbyterian clergyman, pacifist, author, and hymn writer. who at the time was considered as one of the most influential ministers in the country, 1867-1954) Categories: PASSION, PURPOSEFULNESS

Merton, Robert K.: Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. (Robert K. Merton: U.S. sociologist and professor at Columbia University, 1910-2003) Categories: SKEPTICISM, SCIENCE

Merton, Thomas: Perhaps I am stronger than I think. (Thomas Merton: U.S. theologian, social activist, and student of comparative religion, 1915-1968) Categories: SELF-CONFIDENCE

Merton, Thomas: The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. (Thomas Merton: U.S. theologian, social activist, and student of comparative religion, 1915-1968) Categories: LOVE

Merton, Thomas: The biggest temptation is to settle for too little. (Thomas Merton: U.S. theologian, social activist, and student of comparative religion, 1915-1968) Categories: TEMPTATION

Metastasio, Pietro: The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. (Pietro Metastasio: Italian poet and the most celebrated librettist for operas in Europe, 1698-1782) Categories: SHARING

Mexican Proverb: It’s not enough to know how to ride—you must learn how to fall. (Mexican Proverb: ) Categories: LEARNING, PREPARATION

Meyer, Agnes: Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep. (Agnes Meyer: U.S. journalist, philanthropist, civil rights activist, and art patron, 1887-1970) Categories: FAMILY, ROOTS

Meyer, Joyce: A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. (Joyce Meyer: U.S. Christian author, speaker, and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries, Born 1943) Categories: DREAMS, SELF-MOTIVATION, TOOLS

Meyer, Joyce: Do not depend on other people as a source of your happiness or for approval. (Joyce Meyer: U.S. Christian author, speaker, and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries, Born 1943) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS, SELF-ESTEEM

Meyer, Stephenie: I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars. (Stephenie Meyer: U.S. novelist and film producer, Born 1973) Categories: DARKNESS, STARS, NIGHT TIME

Michelangelo: Genius is eternal patience. (Michelangelo: Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance, 1475-1564) Categories: GENIUS, PATIENCE

Michelangelo: I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free. (Michelangelo: Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance, 1475-1564) Categories: CREATIVITY, SCULPTURE

Michelangelo: The greater damage for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. (Michelangelo: Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance, 1475-1564) Categories: GOALS, SELF-CONFIDENCE

Michelet, Jules: Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule. (Jules Michelet: French historian who was the first to use and define the word 'Renaissance' as a period in Europe's cultural history that represented a dramatic break from the Middle Ages, 1798-1874) Categories: CONTROL, WOMEN, OBEDIENCE

Miles, Rufus: Where you stand depends on where you sit. (Rufus Miles: U.S. author and Federal administrator who served as an assistant secretary under three presidents, 1910-1996) Categories: OPINIONS, PARTISANSHIP, POLITICS, RANKING

Milk, Harvey: The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it. (Harvey Milk: U.S. politician and the first openly gay elected official in the history of California—until his assassination, 1930-1978) Categories: HOPE

Mill, John S.: A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. (John S. Mill: British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873) Categories: ACTION, EVIL, INACTION, RESPONSIBILITY

Mill, John S.: He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. (John S. Mill: British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873) Categories: DELIBERATION, ONE-SIDEDNESS

Mill, John S.: His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape. (John S. Mill: British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873) Categories: COMPETITION, EMINENCE

Mill, John S.: I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. (John S. Mill: British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873) Categories: DESIRE, MODERATION

Mill, John S.: The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement. (John S. Mill: British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873) Categories: OBSTACLES, CUSTOM

Mill, John S.: Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. (John S. Mill: British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873) Categories: HAPPINESS

Mill, John S.: We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would still be an evil. (John S. Mill: British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873) Categories: OPINIONS, CONSTRAINT

Millar, Margaret: Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. (Margaret Millar: Canadian-American mystery and suspense writer, 1915-1994) Categories: COMMUNICATION, CONVERSATIONS

Miller, Arthur: A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself. (Arthur Miller: U.S. playwright and essayist, 1915-2005) Categories: JOURNALISM, NEWSPAPERS

Miller, Arthur: Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. (Arthur Miller: U.S. playwright and essayist, 1915-2005) Categories: PROFIT, NON-PROFITS

Miller, Arthur: Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. (Arthur Miller: U.S. playwright and essayist, 1915-2005) Categories: REGRET

Miller, Arthur: The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. (Arthur Miller: U.S. playwright and essayist, 1915-2005) Categories: ILLUSIONS

Miller, George: The trouble with eating Italian food is that 5 or 6 days later you’re hungry again. (George Miller: Australian filmmaker best known for his Mad Max franchise, Born 1945) Categories: FOOD, ITALY

Miller, Henry: One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. (Henry Miller: U.S. novelist, 1891-1980) Categories: CURIOSITY, DESTINATION, OPEN-MINDEDNESS, TRAVEL

Miller, Henry: The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love. (Henry Miller: U.S. novelist, 1891-1980) Categories: LOVING

Miller, Karen E.: When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them. (Karen E. Miller: U.S. best-selling author, contributor to 'The Huntington Post') Categories: PERSEVERANCE, REJECTION

Miller, Larry: You know you're getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it. (Larry Miller: U.S. comedian, actor, podcaster, and columnist, Born 1953) Categories: AGING, GOLF

Miller, Max: Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast. (Max Miller: English comedian who was widely regarded as the greatest stand-up comedian of his generation, 1894-1963) Categories: LANGUAGE

Miller, Olin: If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. (Olin Miller: U.S. renowned author who is considered as one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century, Born 1950) Categories: PROCRASTINATION

Milne, A. A.: You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. (A. A. Milne: English writer, best known for his books about Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry, 1882-1956) Categories: SELF-CONFIDENCE, SELF-IMAGE

Milosz, Czeslaw: Not that I want to be a god or a hero—just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. (Czeslaw Milosz: Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1911-2004) Categories: ASPIRATIONS

Milton, John: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674) Categories: POWER, SERVITUDE

Milton, John: For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674) Categories: HYPOCRISY

Milton, John: Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674) Categories: CONSCIENCE, LIBERTY

Milton, John: He that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green which otherwise would heal and do well. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674) Categories: REVENGE, SELF-DAMAGE

Milton, John: He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674) Categories: SELF-CONTROL

Milton, John: Liberty is not License. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674) Categories: LIBERTY, RESTRAINT, RESTRICTIONS

Milton, John: Opinion . . . is but knowledge in the making. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674) Categories: OPINIONS

Milton, John: Reason is also choice. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674) Categories: ATTITUDE, REASON

Milton, John: So many laws argue so many sins. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674) Categories: SIN, LAWS

Milton, John: The childhood shows the man / As morning shows the day. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674) Categories: CHILDHOOD

Milton, John: The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674) Categories: MIND, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Milton, John: Those who put out the people's eyes, reproach them for their blindness. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674) Categories: CRITICISM, POLITICS

Milton, John: Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing . . . many opinions, for opinion is but knowledge in the making. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674) Categories: LEARNING, OPINIONS

Milton, John: Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674) Categories: FORCE

Mirabeau, Gabriel: It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary! (Gabriel Mirabeau: French leader of the early stages of the French Revolution, 1749-1791) Categories: TOLERATION, INTOLERANCE

Miro, Joan: Painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. (Joan Miro: Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist, 1893-1983) Categories: PAINTING, POETRY

Mises, Ludwig v.: The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world. (Ludwig v. Mises: Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologist.) Categories: ECONOMICS

Mistral, Gabriella: Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe. (Gabriella Mistral: Chilean poet-diplomat, educator, 1889-1957) Categories: BEAUTY

Mitchell, David: War is an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. . . . . War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it’s a lottery. (David Mitchell: Novelist, Born 1969) Categories: WAR

Mitchell, John C.: Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us. (John C. Mitchell: , U.S. professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS, ATTITUDES

Mitchell, Margaret: The usual male disillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain. (Margaret Mitchell: U.S. novelist and journalist, 1900- 1949) Categories: GENDER

Mitford, Jessica: You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. (Jessica Mitford: English author, journalist, and civil rights activist, 1917-1996) Categories: ACTIVISM, JOURNALISM, MEDIA

Mitford, Mary R.: Friendship is the bread of the heart. (Mary R. Mitford: English essayist, novelist, poet, and dramatist, 1787-1855) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Mizner, Wilson: When you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research. (Wilson Mizner: playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur, 1876-1933) Categories: WRITING

Moliere: Doubts are more cruel than the worst truths. (Moliere: French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature and whose plays have been translated into every major living language, 1622-1673) Categories: DOUBTS

Moliere: It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. (Moliere: French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature and whose plays have been translated into every major living language, 1622-1673) Categories: INACTION, ACCOUNTABILITY

Moliere: Love is often a fruit of marriage. (Moliere: French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature and whose plays have been translated into every major living language, 1622-1673) Categories: LOVE, MARRIAGE

Moliere: Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ. (Moliere: French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature and whose plays have been translated into every major living language, 1622-1673) Categories: DEEDS, INTENTIONS, PROMISES

Moliere: One is easily fooled by that which one loves. (Moliere: French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature and whose plays have been translated into every major living language, 1622-1673) Categories: DECEPTION

Moliere: The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. (Moliere: French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature and whose plays have been translated into every major living language, 1622-1673) Categories: OBSTACLES

Mondale, Walter: There will be no veterans of World War III. (Walter Mondale: U.S. politician, diplomat, and lawyer who served as the 42nd U.S. vice-president under President Jimmy Carter, Born 1928) Categories: WAR

Monet, Claude: Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. (Claude Monet: French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, 1840-1926) Categories: ART, ARTISTS, PAINTING

Monro, Hector H.: A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations. (Hector H. Monro: British writer and social critic, 1870-1916) Categories: EDITING

Monroe, Marilyn: A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. (Marilyn Monroe: U.S. actress, model, and singer, 1926-1962) Categories: CAREERS, RELATIONSHIPS

Monroe, Marilyn: It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone. (Marilyn Monroe: U.S. actress, model, and singer, 1926-1962) Categories: ALONENESS, RELATIONSHIPS, UNHAPPINESS

Monroe, Marilyn: Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. (Marilyn Monroe: U.S. actress, model, and singer, 1926-1962) Categories: GENDER

Montagu, Ashley: Psychosclerosis is the hardening of the mind—refusing to admit any new idea contrary to one's own beliefs and ideas. (Ashley Montagu: British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development, 1905-1999) Categories: CLOSE-MINDEDNESS

Montague, C. E.: War hath no fury like a non-combatant. (C. E. Montague: English journalist, novelist, and essayist, 1867-1928) Categories: OBJECTORS, WAR

Montague, Mary W.: There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind. (Mary W. Montague: English aristocrat, writer, and poet, 1689-1762) Categories: BOOKS, READING

Montaigne, Michel de: A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592) Categories: FEAR, SUFFERING

Montaigne, Michel de: Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592) Categories: FAME

Montaigne, Michel de: Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592) Categories: DESIRE, FEAR, FUTURE, HOPE

Montaigne, Michel de: He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592) Categories: FEAR

Montaigne, Michel de: Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592) Categories: IGNORANCE

Montaigne, Michel de: Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592) Categories: IGNORANCE

Montaigne, Michel de: Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul is impossible. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592) Categories: POVERTY, SOUL

Montaigne, Michel de: The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS, SELF-IDENTITY

Montaigne, Michel de: The greatest thing in the worlds to know how to belong to oneself. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592) Categories: SELF-UNDERSTANDING

Montaigne, Michel de: The soul that has no established aim loses itself. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592) Categories: SOUL, AIMS

Montaigne, Michel de: The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war between princes. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592) Categories: ARGUMENTS, DISAGREEMENT, WAR

Montaigne, Michel de: There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592) Categories: DEFEAT, VICTORY

Montaigne, Michel de: There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592) Categories: HEART, MIND, SELF-AWARENESS, EGO

Montesquieu, Charles de: If triangles had a God, he would have three sides. (Charles de Montesquieu: French judge, historian, and political philosopher who promoted the theory of separation of state, 1689-1755) Categories: GOD, TRIANGLES

Montesquieu, Charles de: Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. (Charles de Montesquieu: French judge, historian, and political philosopher who promoted the theory of separation of state, 1689-1755) Categories: GOVERNMENT

Montesquieu, Charles de: To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. (Charles de Montesquieu: French judge, historian, and political philosopher who promoted the theory of separation of state, 1689-1755) Categories: LEADERSHIP

Montesquieu, Charles de: Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. (Charles de Montesquieu: French judge, historian, and political philosopher who promoted the theory of separation of state, 1689-1755) Categories: LAW

Montessori, Maria: Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. (Maria Montessori: Italian physician and educator, 1870-1952) Categories: SELF-RELIANCE, TEACHING

Montessori, Maria: The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." (Maria Montessori: Italian physician and educator, 1870-1952) Categories: TEACHING

Montgomery, Lucy M.: Although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won. (Lucy M. Montgomery: Canadian author best known for a series of novels, "Anne of Green Gables," 1874-1942) Categories: AMBITION, CHALLENGES

Montgomery, Lucy M.: It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying. (Lucy M. Montgomery: Canadian author best known for a series of novels, "Anne of Green Gables," 1874-1942) Categories: WORRY

Montgomery, Lucy M.: Proverbs are all very fine when there’s nothing to worry you, but when you’re in real trouble, they’re not a bit of help. (Lucy M. Montgomery: Canadian author best known for a series of novels, "Anne of Green Gables," 1874-1942) Categories: PROVERBS

Moody, Dwight: Character is what you are in the dark. (Dwight Moody: U.S. evangelist and publisher, 1837-1899) Categories: CHARACTER, SELF-AWARENESS

Moore, Dudley: I am always looking for meaningful one-night stands. (Dudley Moore: English actor, comedian, musician, and composer, 1935-2002) Categories: SEX

Moore, Henry: Think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s. (Henry Moore: English artist who is best known for his monumental bronze sculptures located around the world, 1898-1986) Categories: GOALS, RESOLUTIONS

Moore, Henry: You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it. (Henry Moore: English artist who is best known for his monumental bronze sculptures located around the world, 1898-1986) Categories: LUCK

Moore, Marianne: Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. (Marianne Moore: U.S. modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature, 1887-1972) Categories: POETRY

Moore, Mary Tyler: Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. . . . You have to fail in order to practice being brave. (Mary Tyler Moore: U.S. actress, producer, author, and activist, 1936-2017) Categories: MISTAKES, RISK

Moore, Thomas: Soul appears when we make room for it. (Thomas Moore: Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, 1779-1852) Categories: SOUL

Moorish Proverb: He who fears something gives it power over him. (Moorish Proverb: ) Categories: FEAR, POWER

More, Hannah: In grief we know the worst of what we feel, But who can tell the end of what we fear? (Hannah More: English poet, playwright, anti-slavery campaigner and one of the most influential female philanthropists of the Age of Revolution, 1745-1833) Categories: FEAR

Morgan, Robin: Pornography is the theory, and rape is the practice. (Robin Morgan: poet, author, political theorist, activist, journalist, lecturer, and key leader of the American Women’s Movement, Born 1941) Categories: PORNOGRAPHY, RAPE

Morgenstern, Christian: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general. (Christian Morgenstern: German author and poet, 1871-1914) Categories: LANGUAGE, RANDOMNESS

Morley, Christopher: Life is a foreign language; most men mispronounce it. (Christopher Morley: U.S. journalist, novelist, essayist and poet, 1890-1957) Categories: LIFE

Morley, Christopher: The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people. (Christopher Morley: U.S. journalist, novelist, essayist and poet, 1890-1957) Categories: ENEMIES

Morley, Christopher: There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning., (Christopher Morley: U.S. journalist, novelist, essayist and poet, 1890-1957) Categories: GOALS, LIFE

Morley, Christopher: There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way. (Christopher Morley: U.S. journalist, novelist, essayist and poet, 1890-1957) Categories: SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, SUCCESS

Morley, John: It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place, or in the second place. (John Morley: British Liberal statesman, writer, and newspaper editor, 1838-1923) Categories: TRUTH

Morley, John: Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. (John Morley: British Liberal statesman, writer, and newspaper editor, 1838-1923) Categories: AUTHORITARIANISM, LAW, RELIGION

Morley, John: You have not converted a man because you have silenced him (John Morley: British Liberal statesman, writer, and newspaper editor, 1838-1923) Categories: CONVERSION, SILENCING

Morley, John: You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. (John Morley: British Liberal statesman, writer, and newspaper editor, 1838-1923) Categories:

Moroccan Proverb: Friendship is honey, but don't eat it all (Moroccan Proverb: ) Categories: FRIENDS

Moroccan Proverb: None but a mule denies his family (Moroccan Proverb: ) Categories: FAMILY

Morris, William: Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement. (William Morris: British textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist, 1834-1896) Categories: SIMPLICITY

Morrison, Toni: At no point in my life have I ever felt as though I were an American. (Toni Morrison: U.S. African-American novelist, editor, professor, social reformer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1931-2019) Categories: RACISM (U.S.A.)

Morrison, Toni: Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” (Toni Morrison: U.S. African-American novelist, editor, professor, social reformer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1931-2019) Categories: DEFINITIONS

Morrison, Toni: In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. (Toni Morrison: U.S. African-American novelist, editor, professor, social reformer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1931-2019) Categories: DISCRIMINATION, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY

Morrison, Toni: The fathers may soar / And the children may know their names. (Toni Morrison: U.S. African-American novelist, editor, professor, social reformer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1931-2019) Categories: PARENTING, ABANDONMENT

Morrison, Toni: Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. (Toni Morrison: U.S. African-American novelist, editor, professor, social reformer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1931-2019) Categories: OBSTACLES, ASPIRATIONS

Morrow, Dan: Bigotry is the harvest of the persistent seeds of intolerance that is planted in ground—ground that has been plowed by fear and watered by greed. (Dan Morrow: U.S. author and professor of educational psychology) Categories: PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY

Morse, Samuel: If electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted by electricity. (Samuel Morse: U.S. painter and inventor who contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, 1791-1872) Categories: COMMUNICATION, INVENTIONS, TELEGRAPHY

Mortensen, Gunnar: Gone from our sight, but never from our hearts. (Gunnar Mortensen: U.S. television cameraman on the "Good Morning Show," 1982-2022) Categories: DEATH, EULOGY, SYMPATHY, CONDOLENCES

Mortenson, Greg: What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of the missing drop. (Greg Mortenson: U.S. professional speaker, writer, and mountaineer who served as a co-founder of the non-profit Central Asia Institute, Born 1957) Categories: RELATIVITY, CONTRIBUTIONS

Mother Teresa: I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. (Mother Teresa: Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997) Categories: ACTIVISM, COMMITMENT, INFLUENCE

Mother Teresa: If you judge people, you have no time to love them. (Mother Teresa: Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997) Categories: JUDGING

Mother Teresa: Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless. (Mother Teresa: Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997) Categories: KINDNESS

Mother Teresa: One filled with joy preaches without preaching. (Mother Teresa: Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997) Categories: ROLE MODELS

Mother Teresa: The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. (Mother Teresa: Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997) Categories: INSECURITY

Mother Teresa: There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. (Mother Teresa: Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997) Categories: APPRECIATION, LOVE

Mother Teresa: To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. (Mother Teresa: Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997) Categories: PERSEVERANCE

Mowat, Oliver: No one is the worse for knowing two languages. (Oliver Mowat: Canadian lawyer, politician, and one of the Fathers of Confederation, 1820-1903) Categories: BILINGUALISM, MULTI-LINGUALISM

Moyers, Bill: Our government has become a clearinghouse for corporations and plutocrats whose dollars grease the wheels for lucrative contracts and easy regulation. (Bill Moyers: U.S. journalist and political commentator who also served as White House Press Secretary, Born 1934) Categories: CORPORATIONS, GOVERNMENT (U.S.A.)

Moyers, Bill: War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination, political nerve, and diplomatic skill. (Bill Moyers: U.S. journalist and political commentator who also served as White House Press Secretary, Born 1934) Categories: WAR

Moynihan, Daniel P.: Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts. (Daniel P. Moynihan: U.S. politician and sociologist, 1927-2003) Categories: FACTS, OPINIONS

Mozart, Wolfgang A.: Silence is very important. The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves. (Wolfgang A. Mozart: Austrian composer and musician, 1756-1791) Categories: MUSIC

Ms. Song: How a country faces the future depends in large part on how it faces its past. (Ms. Song: Chinese Deputy Principal of a Beijing Girl’s School, Born 1949) Categories: HISTORY

Muhammad (Prophet): Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled. (Muhammad (Prophet): ) Categories: EXPERIENCE, TRAVEL

Muhammad (Prophet): Seek knowledge from the cradle to the coffin. (Muhammad (Prophet): ) Categories: KNOWLEDGE, LIFE, PERSEVERANCE

Muhammad Ali: Don't count the days, make the days count (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016) Categories: ACTION, INVOLVEMENT

Muhammad Ali: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016) Categories: FORCEFULNESS, NIMBLENESS

Muhammad Ali: I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, PREPARATION, TRAINING

Muhammad Ali: If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it — then I can achieve it (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016) Categories: FORCEFULNESS, NIMBLENESS

Muhammad Ali: Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016) Categories: SERVICE

Muhammad Ali: Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016) Categories: FAILURE, SUCCESS, WINNING

Muhammad Ali: The man who has no imagination has no wings. (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016) Categories: IMAGINATION

Muhammad Ali: The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016) Categories: MATURATION

Muhammad Ali: Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars on poverty are fought to map change. (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016) Categories: ECONOMICS, WAR, MAPS

Muir, John: God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. (John Muir: Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness, 1838-1914) Categories: ECOLOGY

Muir, John: The air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue. (John Muir: Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness, 1838-1914) Categories: WILDERNESS

Muir, John: The power of imagination makes us infinite. (John Muir: Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness, 1838-1914) Categories: IMAGINATION

Muller, Herbert: The doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind. (Herbert Muller: U.S., educator, historian, and author, 1905-1980) Categories: PRAYER

Mullins, Rich: The problem with life is that it's so daily. (Rich Mullins: U.S. Christian music singer and songwriter best known for his worship songs, 1955-1997) Categories: MONOTONY, DRUGGERY

Mumford, Ethel: God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. (Ethel Mumford: U.S. author, 1876-1940) Categories: FRIENDS, RELATIVES

Mumford, Lewis: Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. (Lewis Mumford: U.S. historian, literary critic, sociologist, and philosopher of technology, noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, 1895-1990) Categories: GENERATIONS, FAMILY

Mumford, Lewis: The artist has a special task and duty—the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity. (Lewis Mumford: U.S. historian, literary critic, sociologist, and philosopher of technology, noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, 1895-1990) Categories: ARTISTS

Mumford, Lewis: The U.S.'s national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. (Lewis Mumford: U.S. historian, literary critic, sociologist, and philosopher of technology, noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, 1895-1990) Categories: U.S.A., HIGHWAYS

Munger, Charles: Take a simple idea and take it seriously. (Charles Munger: U.S. businessman, investor, and philanthropist who was vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and an outspoken critic of excessive executive pay, 1924-2023) Categories: INNOVATION, INSIGHT, INVENTION, SUCCESS

Murakami, Haruki: People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. (Haruki Murakami: Japanese writer whose novels, essays, and short stories have been translated into 50 languages, Born 1949) Categories: MEMORY

Murdoch, Iris: Contentment—one of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. (Iris Murdoch: Irish novelist and philosopher who is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious, 1919-1999) Categories: CONTENTMENT

Murdoch, Iris: In the field of transportation, only the bicycle remains pure in heart. (Iris Murdoch: Irish novelist and philosopher who is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious, 1919-1999) Categories: BICYCLES

Murdoch, Iris: The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. (Iris Murdoch: Irish novelist and philosopher who is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious, 1919-1999) Categories: PATIENCE

Murray, Pauli: Black women have been doubly victimized by the immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. (Pauli Murray: U.S. civil rights activist, lawyer, women's rights activist, and Episcopal priest, 1910-1985) Categories: PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY, WOMEN

Murrow, Edward R.: A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965) Categories: ACTIVISM, GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

Murrow, Edward R.: Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices—just recognize them. (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965) Categories: AWARENESS, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY, UNCONSCIOUS BIAS

Murrow, Edward R.: Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965) Categories: SELF-IDENTITY, TRUTHS

Murrow, Edward R.: No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. Edward R. Murrow, journalist (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965) Categories: AUTHORITARIANISM, LEADERSHIP, TERRORISM

Murrow, Edward R.: We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965) Categories: DISSENT, DISLOYALTY

Murry, J. M.: There is nothing more dangerous to the formation of a prose style than the endeavor to make it poetic. (J. M. Murry: English writer, so prolific an author as to have produced more than 60 books and thousands of essays and reviews on literature, social issues, politics, and religion, 1889-1957) Categories: WRITING

Mussolini, Benito: If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time people don't notice it. (Benito Mussolini: Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party, 1883-1945) Categories: POWER, STRATEGIES

Mussolini, Benito: If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, nobody notices. (Benito Mussolini: Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party, 1883-1945) Categories: DECEPTION, POLITICS

Mussorgsty, Modest: Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity. (Modest Mussorgsty: Russian composer who strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, 1839-1981) Categories: ART

Myers, Verna: Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance. (Verna Myers: U.S. diversity consultant, author, speaker, lawyer, and corporate executive) Categories: COMMUNICATION, DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY, BIASES

Myerson, Beth: The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. (Beth Myerson: U.S. politician, model, and television actress who in 1945 became the first Jewish Miss America, 1924-2014) Categories: APATHY, CORRUPTION, INDIFFERENCE

Myrdal, Gunnar: The treatment of the Negro is America’s greatest and most conspicuous scandal. (Gunnar Myrdal: Swedish economist and sociologist, 1898-1987) Categories: RACISM (U.S.A.)

Myss, Caroline: Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it? (Caroline Myss: U.S. author about mysticism and wellness, Born 1952) Categories: FEAR, MEMORIES