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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitzborn 1950Social Studies (1981), “People”.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee1940–1973Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 46
- Character
- Knowledge
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
Gerald Stanley Lee1862–1944Crowds (1913), Book II, Chapter XV.
- Character
- Success
There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.
Gerald Stanley Lee1862–1944Crowds (1913), Book V, Part III, Chapter XVI.
- Character
- Fame
The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a true gentleman.
Robert E. Lee1807–1870“Definition of a Gentleman”, a memorandum found in his papers after his death, as quoted in Lee the American (1912) by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 233
- Character
- Power
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
John Lennon1940–1980Interview for KFRC RKO Radio (8 December 1980)
- History
- Responsibility
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Screwtape Letters (1942), Letter XXIX
- Courage
Surely what a man does when he is caught off his guard is the best evidence as to what sort of man he is.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity
- Morality
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. IV: “Human Wickedness”
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949), “The Weight of Glory”
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Charity
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Charity
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of Man