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There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
RARobert Alden
Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after his request, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.
AAli599–661Nahj al-Balagha
- Charity
I’ve never minded being disciplined. I’d always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly.
Julie Andrewsborn 1935Woman & Home (July 2000)
- Character
- Freedom
I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou1928–2014I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), Ch. 35
- Comedy
Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.
Maya Angelou1928–2014in Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou (2014), p. 68
- Courage
It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness.
Marie Antoinette1755–1793Letter to her mother, Empress Maria Theresa (June 1775), after Louis XVI’s coronation at Reims; as quoted in Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey (2001), p. 135
- Leadership
- Responsibility
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle384–322 BC
- Courage
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Aristotle384–322 BC
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle384–322 BC
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle384–322 BC
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Aristotle384–322 BC
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book II, 1107a.4
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light
- Character
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Arthur Ashe1943–19931991 commencement address at Ohio Wesleyan University
- Character
- Courage
It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), Chapter 102, “Al Capp” (p. 311)
- Charity
- Politics