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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind.
- Hamilton Mabie

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.
- General Douglas MacArthur

In war there is no substitute for victory.
- General Douglas MacArthur

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Norman MacEwan

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince"

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing time, which give him liesure to contrive and furnish his ability to execute military plans.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
- Helen MacInness

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.
- Harvey Mackay

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz

Always remember when you are on top of the world, that the earth rotates every 24 hrs.
- Steve G. Makris

The one who travels alone travels the fastest, but the one who travels in a group travels the farthest.
- Brother Pontius Malmberg

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
- Og Mandino

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
- Fred A. Manske, Jr.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
- Orison S. Marden

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
- Queen Margret II of Denmark

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
-Donald R. Perry Marquis

Procrastination is the art of keeping with yesterday.
- Donald R. Perry Marquis

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
- Karl Marx

Religion... is the opium of the masses.
- Karl Marx

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
- Jackie Mason

Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
- John C. Maxwell

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
- John C. Maxwell

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
- John C. Maxwell

A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.
- John C. Maxwell

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
- John C. Maxwell

Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best.
- John C. Maxwell

Leadership is influence.
- John C. Maxwell

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one.
- Rollo May

Commitment is healthiest when it not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
- Rollo May

Always question. Always analyze. But in the end, suspend judgment until you've been there. Live it to learn it.
- Mark McClinchie

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
- David McIntosh

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.
- Tim McMahon

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
- Mignon McLaughlin

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Never underestimate the abililty of a small group of people to change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Meade

Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.
- H. L. Mencken

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
- H. L. Mencken

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
- H. L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
- H. L. Mencken

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
- H. L. Mencken

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity... You can't sit back and wait.
- Ellen Metcalf

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands

Sure, there's no "i" in team, but there is an "m" and an "e".
- Kevin Meyers

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
- Michelangelo

Lord, grant that I might always aspire to more than I can accomplish.
- Michelangelo

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
- James A. Michener

Continental people have sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles.
- George Mikes

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
- Stanley Milgram

The road to success is always under construction.
- Jim Miller

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
- Wilson Mizner

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
- Wilson Mizner

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.
- Montaigne

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
- Montaigne

The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.
- Roy E. Moody

After all, there is but one race - humanity.
- George Moore

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
- Henry Moore

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
- Hannah More

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Jeanne Moreau

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
- Dwight Morrow

It's so easy to laugh. It's so easy to hate. It takes strength to be gentle and kind.
- Stephen Morrissey

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.
- Daniel Moynihan

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
- Daniel Moynihan

Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.
- James X. Mullen

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
- Edward R. Murrow

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.
- Gunnar Myrdal