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We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919The Strenuous Life (1899)
- Courage
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Critical Path (1981)
- Character
What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Twilight of the Idols (1889), “Maxims and Arrows,” § 1.8
- Courage
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Charles Dickens (1906)
- Character
- Leadership
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), Line 45In context
- Courage
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Charity
- Christianity
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Liberty
- Wisdom
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Speech at the Republican National Convention, Platform Committee Meeting, Miami, Florida” (31 July 1968)
- Laws
- Responsibility
We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.
Helen Keller1880–1968The Five-sensed World (1910)
- Courage
- Wisdom
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Edward Gibbon1737–1794The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776–1788), Chap. 48
- Character
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Edward Gibbon1737–1794The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776–1788), Chap. 49.
- Charity
- Emotion
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
- Charity
- Christianity
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Signs of the Times (1829)
- Responsibility
- Work
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), Goethe.
- Character
- Intelligence
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings1818–1885Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873) (p. 235)
- Forgiveness