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I don’t think that there’s anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It’s the other attitude that confuses me.
Paul Newman1925–2008When asked “Is charity your responsibility as a celebrity?” in “Paul Newman’s Road To Glory” interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly (1 July 2002)
- Charity
If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
Bo Burnhamborn 1990Words Words Words (2010)
- Charity
- Comedy
To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that’s what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg1933–2020About her legacy. As quoted in: Jay Croft (September 20, 2020): 10 quotes that help define the ‘Notorious RBG’ legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Charity
- Life & Death
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed.
Barbra Streisandborn 1942Playboy interview (1977), as quoted in No Glass Slipper: Surviving and Conquering Painful Life Experiences (2006), p. 32
- Character
- Pride
I was very lucky in my career and I loved it. But I don’t think I was accomplished enough as an actor to be remembered particularly. No, I’d like to be remembered as a decent human being, and a caring one.
Grace Kelly1929–1982Interview with Pierre Salinger, June 22, 1982
- Acting
- Character
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
My strength doesn’t come from a lack of fear but from an overpowering sense of moral outrage.
Ilhan Omarborn 1982This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman (2020)
- Courage
- Fear
You don’t luck into integrity. You work at it.
Betty White1922–2021If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t) (2011)
- Character
None of us can be held responsible for the wrongs of our ancestors. But if today we choose not to do the right and necessary thing, that burden we own.
Nikole Hannah-Jonesborn 1976The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (2021)
- Responsibility
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
With malice toward none, with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865)
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons (4 June 1940)
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons on becoming Prime Minister (13 May 1940)
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Speech accepting renomination, Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia (27 June 1936)
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)