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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
Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)
- Character
There must be a certain amount of decorum in the world, just as there must be a certain amount of light.
José Martí1853–1895Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
- Honor
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
José Martí1853–1895Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
- Character
- Inspiration
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 50In context
- Character
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965Of Human Bondage (1915), Chapter XXXIXIn context
- Character
- Decisions
I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land. I want the presidency in the best way, not the worst way.
John McCain1936–2018Remarks following the South Carolina Primary (19 February 2000).
- Character
- Presidency
I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.
Conor McGregorborn 1988UFC 178 post-event press conference (September 2014), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
- Character
- Pride
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
Claude McKay1889–1948If We Must Die (1919)In context
- Courage
- Life & Death
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
Claude McKay1889–1948If We Must Die (1919)In context
- Courage
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan1911–1980Lecture “Living in an Acoustic World”, University of South Florida (1970)
- Nature
- Responsibility
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IXIn context
- Money
Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness!
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IXIn context
- Honor
Delight is to him⁠—a far, far upward, and inward delight⁠—who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IXIn context
- Character
- Courage
Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter’s, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter LXVIIIIn context
- Advice
- Character