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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Peter Ustinov1921–2004BBC obituary (2004)
- Responsibility
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.
Washington Irving1783–1859The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820), “Philip of Pokanoket”
- Character
I’m not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn’t changed me.
Bobby Fischer1943–2008Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
- Character
The awful daring of a moment’s surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Waste Land (1922)In context
- Courage
- Risk
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal themselves in all their beauty only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
Carl Friedrich Gauss1777–1855Letter to Sophie Germain (30 April 1807)
- Courage
- Science
I prefer to remember Patton as a man, as a man with all the frailties and faults of a human being, as a man whose greatness is therefore all the more of a triumph.
Omar Bradley1893–1981A Soldier’s Story (1951), p. xii
- Character
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.
William H. Seward1801–1872On the Irrepressible Conflict (1858)
- Politics
After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Poems (1920), “Gerontion”
- Forgiveness
- Knowledge
It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
Horace Mann1796–1859Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867), p. 199
- Thinking
There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.
Patrick Rothfussborn 1973The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 75, “Interlude—Obedience” (p. 593)
- Character
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer1820–1903Social Statics (1851), Pt. II, Ch. 17: The Rights of Children
- Character
- Education
What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948A New Earth (2005)
- Character
Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach1830–1916Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 29.
Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.
John Lydonborn 1956As quoted in NME Rock ‘N’ Roll Years (1992) by John Tobler, p. 303
- Forgiveness
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
Miyamoto Musashi1584–1645Dokkodo (1645)
- Honor