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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
- Charity
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. Sheen1895–1979
- Charity
- God
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #25
- Liberty
- Responsibility
What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.
MKMichael Kordaborn 1933Success! (1977)
- Responsibility
- Success
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949), “The Weight of Glory”
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill
- Charity
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought
to be.
Socrates470–399 BC
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Aristotle384–322 BC
The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.
ABAbigail Van Buren
- Morality
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne1907–1979
- Courage
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Charity
Duty, honour, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Sylvanus Thayer Award acceptance speech to the cadets of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (12 May 1962)
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023