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Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Matthew (1611), Matthew 5:16 (NKJV)In context
- God
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), Ch. 5In context
- Character
- Truth & Lies
No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress (1862)
- History
- Honor
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that distinguishes the philosopher.
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860Letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (November 1815)
- Courage
- Philosophy
The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.
Richard Nixon1913–1994First Inaugural Address (1969)
- Honor
- War & Peace
The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Address to Congress (April 16, 1945)
- Power
- Responsibility
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- Charity
- Money
A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next to escape the censures of the world.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator, No. 122 (20 July 1711)
- Character
- Morality
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955“The Evolution of Chastity” (February 1934), tr. René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)
- Courage
- Faith
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948A New Earth (2005)
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Nobel lecture (1910)
- Character
- Courage
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.
John Rawls1921–2002A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter I, Section 1, pg. 3-4
- Justice
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962My Day (1935–1962)
- Courage
- Love
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
PSPublilius Syrus101–101 BCSentences, Maxim 108
- Honor
- Money
To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them.
PSPublilius Syrus101–101 BCThe Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave, Maxim 383
- Forgiveness