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Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them
- Responsibility
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915
- Charity
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to Major-General Robert Howe (17 August 1779), published in “The Writings of George Washington”: 1778-1779, edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford (1890)
- Money
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to Alexander Hamilton (28 August 1788)
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne1907–1979
- Courage
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
Simone Weil1909–1943Void and Compensation (1947), p. 200
- Forgiveness
Words like virtue, nobility, honor, honesty, generosity, have become almost impossible to use or else they have acquired bastard meanings; language is no longer equipped for legitimately praising a man’s character.
Simone Weil1909–1943“The Responsibility of Writers”, in On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968), p. 168
- Character
Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Time Machine (1895), Chapter VIIn context
- Character
Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.
John Wesley1703–1791Sermon 50 “The Use of Money” in The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M. (1840) edited by John Emory, Vol. I, p. 446
- Charity
- Money
Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
Kanye Westborn 1977Thank You and You’re Welcome (2009), p.19
- Character
I hate when I’m on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.
Kanye Westborn 1977October 16, 2011 tweet
- Comedy
- Responsibility
The worst of doing one’s duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
Edith Wharton1862–1937The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 34In context
- Responsibility
It was the old New York way of taking life “without effusion of blood”: the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than “scenes,” except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.
Edith Wharton1862–1937The Age of Innocence (1920), Book II, Chapter XXXIIIIn context
- Character
- Courage
You don’t luck into integrity. You work at it.
Betty White1922–2021If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t) (2011)
- Character
When faith is lost, when honor dies
The man is dead!
John Greenleaf Whittier1807–1892Ichabod, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
- Faith
- Honor