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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitzborn 1950Social Studies (1981), “People”.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658
- Courage
- Wisdom
For there is one thing we must never forget…the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945
- Courage
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon1769–1821
- Courage
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Charity
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882“Culture,” The Conduct of Life (1860).
- Courage
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Aristotle384–322 BC
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Harry Emerson Fosdick1878–1969Often credited to Benjamin Franklin
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part I, Section I, Chap. I.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Charity
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill1874–19651930-1935 Wilderness Years
- Courage
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
- Age
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
HBHada Bejar
- Charity