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Let this great maxim be my virtue’s guide,⁠—
In part she is to blame that has been tried:
He comes too near that comes to be denied.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu1689–1762“The Lady’s Resolve” (1713)
Character is what you are in the dark.
Dwight L. Moody1837–1899Often credited to John Whorfin
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
Thomas More1478–1535Richard III and His Miserable End (1543)
- Forgiveness
If ill opinions cannot be quite rooted out, and you cannot cure some received vice according to your wishes, you must not, therefore, abandon the commonwealth, for the same reasons as you should not forsake the ship in a storm because you cannot command the winds.
Thomas More1478–1535Utopia (1516), Book IIn context
All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak⁠—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756–1791Letter as published in The Letters of Mozart & His Family (1938) translated and edited by Emily Anderson, p. 1114.
- Courage
- Talking
O believing women! Let none of you despise giving to her neighbour even if it is only a roasted sheep’s trotter.
MMuhammad571–632Sunni Hadith
- Charity
The upper hand is better than the lower hand. The upper hand is the one which spends and the lower is the beggar’s.
MMuhammad571–632Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 4, hadith number 531
- Charity
Modesty is part of belief.
MMuhammad571–632Hadith, in Riyadh as-Salihin by al-Nawawi, vol. 4, no. 681
- Faith
One of the most evil of people is the two-faced person who shows one face to these people and another face to those people.
MMuhammad571–632Muwatta of Imam Malik, Speech, hadith 21
- Character
- Good & Evil
I don’t know what bravery is, sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don’t. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.
Audie Murphy1925–1971“Quotation from Audie Murphy: American Soldier”, by Harold Simpson (1999), pp. 369-371
- Courage
- Fear
All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
Edward R. Murrow1908–1965Speech to his staff (1954)
- Courage
- Truth & Lies
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. Murrow1908–1965CBS television broadcast, on See It Now (7 March 1954)
- Fear
- Responsibility
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
Miyamoto Musashi1584–1645Dokkodo (1645)
- Honor
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon1769–1821
- Courage
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Napoleon1769–1821
- Courage