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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
ARAmbrose Redmoon
- Courage
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
- Courage
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Screwtape Letters (1942), Letter XXIX
- Courage
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love, p. 25
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost1874–1963In the Clearing (1962), “Forgive, O Lord”
- Forgiveness
- God
Surely what a man does when he is caught off his guard is the best evidence as to what sort of man he is.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity
- Morality
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. IV: “Human Wickedness”
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain1835–1910
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
Colin Powell1937–2021The Powell Principles (2003)
- Responsibility
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain1835–1910Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVoto
- Courage
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
- Children
- Forgiveness
Duties are not performed for duty’s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty⁠—the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
Mark Twain1835–1910
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963
- Enemies
- Forgiveness
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill1874–1965The Second World War (1939–1945)
- Responsibility
A very popular error: having the courage of one’s convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one’s convictions.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900
- Courage