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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus55–120
- Character
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton1885–1945
- Courage
- Fear
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus55–120
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
- Forgiveness
- Genius
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them; power to the man who knows how.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915“J.B. Runs Things,” Short Stories and Index: Elbert Hubbard’s Selected Writings, Part 14 (1923), p. 278
- Responsibility
O proud philanthropist, your hope is vain
To get by giving what you lost by gain.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914Epigrams, p. 349. Previously appeared in “Small Contributions”, Cosmopolitan, Vol. 42, No. 6 (April 1907) p. 695.
- Charity
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book II, 1107a.4
To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter VI, § 6.20
- Motivation & Goals
The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.
Confucius551–479 BCOther chapters
- Money
I repeat that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Vivian Grey (1826), Book VI, Chapter 7
- Power
- Responsibility
Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The American Scholar (1837), par. 27
- Character
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Letters and Social Aims (1876), Social Aims
- Life & Death
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Remarks at Republican National Committee Breakfast (31 January 1958)
- Courage
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
POP. J. O'Rourke1947–2022The Liberty Manifesto (1993)
- Freedom
- Responsibility
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XLI
- Character
- Knowledge