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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
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
RLRussell Lynes1910–1991Reader’s Digest, December 1954
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)
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle — the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964
- Courage
The magnificence of the courage and fortitude of the Korean people defies description.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Farewell address to Congress (1951)
- Courage
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods
Thomas Babington Macaulay1800–1859Horatius (1842)In context
- Courage
- Life & Death
Was none who would be foremost
To lead such dire attack;
But those behind cried, “Forward!”
And those before cried, “Back!”
Thomas Babington Macaulay1800–1859Horatius (1842)In context
- Comedy
- Courage
In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
George MacDonald1824–1905Mary Marston, Chapter V.
- Charity
Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, which is the greatest of differences that could possibly exist between them.
George MacDonald1824–1905The Princess and Curdie (1883)
- Character
The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527The Prince (1532), Chapter XXIIIn context
- Character
- Leadership
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
- Courage
- Fear
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
- Character
When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Nelson Mandela on Aids, 46664 Concert, Tromso, Norway (11 Jun 2005)
- History
- Responsibility
I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for. But, my lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Statement from the dock at the Rivonia Trial, Pretoria (20 April 1964)
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann1796–1859Lectures on Education (1855), Lecture 6
- Charity