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Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle384–322 BC
- Courage
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope1688–1744An Essay on Criticism (1711)In context
- Forgiveness
Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act II, scene ii.In context
- Courage
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill
- Courage
- Success
The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
- America
- Responsibility
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
- Courage
- Love
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Often credited to Abraham Lincoln
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Forgiveness
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.
Mark Twain1835–1910Papers of the Adam Family (1939), Part VI: “Two Fragments from a Suppressed Book Called ‘Glances at History’ or ‘Outlines of History’ “
- Responsibility
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfreyborn 1954Good Housekeeping
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain1835–1910Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), Ch. 12.
- Courage
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to Paul Ehrenfest, early December 1914. Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Vol. 8, Doc. 39. Quoted in The New Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2005), p. 3
- Wisdom
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961
- Courage
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
- Charity