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The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
William Hazlitt1778–1830Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld’s Maxims (1823), No. 402
- Character
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself.
Alexander Graham Bell1847–1922Bell Telephone Talk (1901)
- Character
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Vägmärken · Markings (1963), 1955
- Character
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Remarks at Amherst College (26 October 1963)
- Honor
I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
MOMary Oliver1935–2019Evidence (2009), “Evidence”
- Music
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
Thomas More1478–1535Richard III and His Miserable End (1543)
- Forgiveness
To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Prospects of Industrial Civilization (1923)
- Courage
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry Miller1891–1980The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949), Ch. 14, p. 341
- Courage
- God
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)
- Courage
- Knowledge
Superior people are only those who let it be discovered by others; the need to make it evident forfeits the very virtue they aspire to.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Pieces of Eight (1982)
- Character
- Pride
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized.
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797Letters Written in Sweden (1796), Letter 19
- Character
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Ivanov, Act III, sc. vi (1887)
- Character
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
Václav Havel1936–2011International Herald Tribune (21 February 1990)
- Responsibility
But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Pericles494–429 BCPericles’ Funeral Oration
- Courage
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
Agatha Christie1890–1976The ABC Murders (1936)
- Character