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Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
Colin Powell1937–2021
- Charity
A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Charity
- Money
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
RARobert Alden
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Honor
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778Emile: Or, On Education, book II
- Wisdom
Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Essays, Circles.
- Courage
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
Jesse Jackson1941–2026
- Charity
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D. H. Lawrence1885–1930
- Courage
Errors are inevitable. The mark of character is not refusing to recognize them, but acknowledging them and taking responsibility.
Andrew Sullivanborn 1963
- Failure
- Responsibility
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
RLRussell Lynes1910–1991Reader’s Digest, December 1954
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
Joseph Addison1672–1719
- Talking
No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
Reinhold Niebuhr1892–1971The Irony of American History (1952), p. 63
- Forgiveness
If you cannot lift the load off another’s back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.
FTFrank Tyger
- Charity
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Omar Bradley1893–1981
- Courage
Courage is the most beautiful kind of madness.
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- Courage