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We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919National Duties (Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick) (1901)
- Courage
- Failure
Popularity is a Crime from the Moment it is sought; it is only a Virtue where Men have it whether they will or no.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Moral Thoughts and Reflections
- Fame
For kindness begets kindness evermore,
But he from whose mind fades the memory
Of benefits, noble is he no more.
Sophocles496–406 BCAjax, Line 522–524 (tr. R. C. Trevelyan, 1919)
- Character
- Charity
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Ch. 27In context
- Character
The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
Henry Miller1891–1980The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949), Ch. 14
- Forgiveness
- Freedom
For myself, I want no advantage over my fellow man, and if he is weaker than I, all the more is it my duty to help him.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Negro and His Nemesis (1904)
- Charity
- Responsibility
Far better is it to have a stout heart always, and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
Herodotus484–425 BCThe Histories, Book 7, Ch. 50 (trans. George Rawlinson)
- Courage
- Fear
He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me’⁠—in those who do not harbor such thoughts hatred will cease.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BCDhammapada
- Anger
- Forgiveness
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #160
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986On the Contrary (1964), Ch. 7
- Character
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV (June 1784) p. 526
- Courage
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet
And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
And so be pedestaled in triumph?
Robert Browning1812–1889The Ring and the Book (1868-69), Book X, line 1185
All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: Freedom; Justice; Honour; Duty; Mercy; Hope.
Winston Churchill1874–1965United Europe Meeting, Albert Hall, London (May 14, 1947). Cited in Churchill by Himself, ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs (2008), p. 26
If there’s a power above us,
(And that there is all nature cries aloud
Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
- God
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons.
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Vägmärken · Markings (1963), 29 July 1959
- Pride