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Attitude Quotes
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995 Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar Wilde Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~Ancient Persian Saying If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. ~Author Unknown The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. ~The Eagles, "Already Gone" The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster's Law He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ~Samuel Johnson Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893 Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott Hamilton If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ~J. Brotherton There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~Publius Terentius Afer I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. ~Abraham Lincoln Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life. ~Annette Goodheart In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. ~William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health. ~Author Unknown Got no checkbooks, got no banks, Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. ~Irving Berlin, "I Got the Sun in the Morning," 1946 To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. ~Ancient Proverb Make your optimism come true. ~Author Unknown True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. ~Charles Caleb Colton To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. ~Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises. ~William Shakespeare Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. ~Robert Frost If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818 When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long. ~Author Unknown What is possible? What you will. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things. ~Glorie Abelhas Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. ~Katherine Mansfield Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might Which fashioned forth its loveliness Had other aims than my delight. ~Thomas Hardy, Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses, 1909 Whenever you fall, pick something up. ~Oswald Avery Success is due less to ability than to zeal. ~Charles Buxton My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him. ~Margot Asquith Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. ~Author Unknown We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. ~Elbert Hubbard If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... ~William Cowper I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? ~Henry Moore This weary ol' workhorse is a unicorn, my friend. ~Jareb Teague We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt... ~Dorothy Day I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. ~Winston Churchill [W]hat counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~Dwight Eisenhower, address to Republican National Committee, 31 January 1958, also sometimes attributed to Mark Twain (unverified) Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. ~Walt Whitman No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ~Ellen Glasgow I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. ~Wernher von Braun The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." ~Robert Flaherty I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. ~Author Unknown The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. ~Voltaire The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ~Eudora Welty Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. ~Kathleen Turner Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. ~Maurice Setter We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ~Author Unknown The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~Thomas Carlyle Misery is a communicable disease. ~Martha Graham The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ~Will Foley If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. ~David Ambrose If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. ~Francis Rabelais For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ~Adlai Stevenson A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~Hugh Downs Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ~Arthur Christopher Benson Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. ~Alphonse Karr If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. ~John Burroughs The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. ~Susan Longacre I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. ~Thornton Wilder I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. ~Pearl Bailey Men who never get carried away should be. ~Malcolm Forbes Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. ~Norman Vincent Peale Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear. ~Author Unknown There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. ~Frederick Faber We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. ~Konrad Adenauer We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ~Kenneth Clark The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. ~Author Unknown He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it. ~Edgar A. Guest, It Couldn't Be Done Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them. ~Author Unknown Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951 Positive anything is better than negative thinking. ~Elbert Hubbard I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness. ~Leo Tolstoy Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect - 30% of medicine is showbiz. ~Ronald Spark An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ~G.K. Chesterton, "On Running After One's Hat," All Things Considered, 1908 It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice. ~James Whitcomb Riley Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. ~Napoleon Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ~Galileo Galilei Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads. ~Henry David Thoreau A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror. ~Ken Keyes, Jr. Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ~Dag Hammarskjold The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. ~Henri Frédéric Amiel Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. ~Alex Karras It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy. ~Author Unknown Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ~Rabindranath Tagore Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~Emory Austin Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. ~Paavo Nurmi Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ~Edward de Bono, Observer, 12 June 1977 Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Worship," The Conduct of Life, 1860 People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. ~Epictetus Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. ~Nicholas Chamfort A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. ~William Arthur Ward I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. ~Arthur Rubinstein There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are." ~Frederick L. Collins Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe. ~James Whistler "It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately." ~A.A. Milne Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ~Alice Walker Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one. ~Carrie Latet So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. ~Helen MacInness We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston

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Fear Quotes
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You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary Manin Morrissey Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~Marie Curie Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. ~Usman B. Asif Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. ~Robert Louis Stevenson Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it. ~Henry S. Haskins The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. ~Henry Louis Mencken There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. ~George S. Patton Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. ~Brendan Francis There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid. ~Frederick W. Cropp There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. ~Andre Gide Fear is faith that it won't work out. ~Sister Mary Tricky Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. ~Arnold Glasow Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. ~Henry H. Tweedy Fear is the highest fence. ~Dudley Nichols Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. ~Orison Swett Marden Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. ~James Hastings To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. ~Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small. ~Ruth Gendler Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ~Shirley Maclaine To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ~Bertrand Russell Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. ~Brendan Francis Fear is just your feelings asking for a hug. ~Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie, My Name is Earl, "South of the Border Part Uno/Dos," original airdate 7 December 2006, spoken by the character Joy Turner He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Those who fear life are already three parts dead. ~Bertrand Russell Fear makes us feel our humanity. ~Benjamin Disraeli A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. ~George Matthew Adams There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. ~Aeschylus Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. ~Samuel Butler Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost. ~Lloyd Douglas A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb Fear prejudices courage. ~Abigail Charleson Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice Freehill Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real. ~Author Unknown Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind. ~Sophie Tunnell I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side. ~Katharine Butler Hathaway He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. ~Mark Twain Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. ~Donald Dowes Fear dances with courage. ~Ever Garrison The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1833 Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. ~Betty Bender To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear. ~T.A. Sachs I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ~Lady Bird Johnson

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Courage Quotes
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch) Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Winston Churchill Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. ~Mary Anne Radmacher It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894 It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. ~Marvin Kitman Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. ~Sultana Zoraya Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ~Franklin P. Jones Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 If God wanted us to be brave, why did He give us legs? ~Marvin Kitman Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. ~Ambrose Bierce Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one. ~Lauren Raffo Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ~Ernest Hemingway, Men at War, 1942 Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ~Thomas Fuller Fear and courage are brothers. ~Proverb Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~C.S. Lewis The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ~John F. Kennedy One man with courage makes a majority. ~Andrew Jackson Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~Raymond Lindquist Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~Michel de Montaigne When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ~Mark Rutherford Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. ~Irisa Hail True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ~Alfred North Whitehead Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. ~Kurt Goldstein To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. ~Edward Weeks A man of courage never wants weapons. ~Author Unknown It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. ~Aesop A brave arm makes a short sword long. ~Author Unknown No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. ~Henry S. Haskins There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. ~John Wainwright I'm not funny. What I am is brave. ~Lucille Ball Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. ~Charles Kennedy For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. ~John F. Kennedy Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~Dorothy Bernard Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ~George Smith Patton Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. ~David Ben-Gurion Courage is knowing what not to fear. ~Plato Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. ~Diane de Poitiers To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. ~Coventry Patmore Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne Necessity does the work of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler Inside courage laughs fear. ~Jareb Teague Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678 Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ~G.K. Chesterton Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. ~Horace Smith Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~Douglas Malloch The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. ~Albert Camus Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. ~Joseph Epstein A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Underneath courage shouts fear but of a hoarse voice. ~Irisa Hail Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. ~Arthur Koestler Courage is a kind of salvation. ~Plato Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. ~Carl Sandburg Our thought cures courage. ~Jareb Teague Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. ~H.G. Bohn You can't test courage cautiously. ~Anne Dillard The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935 I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ~Jean Paul Richter Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ~Robert Cody

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Faith Quotes
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Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. ~Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne Faith is reason grown courageous. ~Sherwood Eddy Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~Kahlil Gibran Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. ~Author Unknown If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. ~Josh Billings, His Complete Works, 1888 Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ~E.M. Forster Faith is spiritualized imagination. ~Henry Ward Beecher Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. ~David S. Muzzey Faith is a passionate intuition. ~William Wordsworth To me faith means not worrying. ~John Dewey Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~Ramona C. Carroll Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. ~Author Unknown Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ~B.C. Forbes A faith of convenience is a hollow faith. ~Father Mulcahy, M*A*S*H, "A Holy Mess," 1982 Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. ~Victor Hugo Faith makes things possible, not easy. ~Author Unknown Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. ~W. Ralph Ward Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies. ~Mahatma Gandhi Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~Lillian Smith As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ~Emmanuel In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~Blaise Pascal Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. ~Carter Lindberg Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. ~Author Unknown Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel. ~Author Unknown A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none. ~Friedrich Nietzche, Human, All Too Human, 1879 Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. ~George Seaton Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~Martin Luther King Jr. Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. ~Robert Collyer Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ~George Lancaster Spalding

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Trust quotes
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. ~E.M. Forster I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. ~Henry David Thoreau Our distrust is very expensive. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough. ~Frank Crane The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. ~Henry L. Stimson We're all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. ~Booker T. Washington I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them. ~Troy Kennedy-Martin, The Italian Job Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else. ~Nicolas Walter, About Anarchism Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ~William E. Gladstone, 1866 Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ~Charles Krauthammer Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ~Billy Wilder Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ~William Shakespeare A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card. ~Edgar A. Shoaff Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter. ~Lemony Snicket Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly. ~George MacDonald Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. ~Fred Woodworth, The Match!, No. 79 A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney In God we trust, all others we virus scan. ~Author Unknown Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. ~Helen Rowland

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Honesty Quotes
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916 If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain Who lies for you will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~Abraham Lincoln Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ~Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. ~Austin O'Malley A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. ~William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence," Poems from the Pickering Manuscript The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ~Aristotle The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. ~George Herbert With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back. ~Russian proverb Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ~Josh Billings The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. ~Ambrose Bierce A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ~Edgar J. Mohn When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. ~Bill Copeland Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ~Mark Twain Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911 A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~Author Unknown We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. ~Tad Williams Truth fears no questions. ~Unknown There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. ~Thomas Sowell Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ~Thomas Jefferson I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. ~Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912 There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other. ~O. Henry, Rolling Stones, 1912 Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children. ~Oliver Wendell The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. ~R.D. Laing Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ~Winston Churchill If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it. ~Author Unknown The truth is more important than the facts. ~Frank Lloyd Wright Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. ~James Cardinal Gibbons Respect for the truth is an acquired taste. ~Mark Van Doren, Liberal Education, 1943 If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. ~Rospo Pallenberg and John Boorman, Excalibur, based on Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. ~Richard J. Needham If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. ~Bertrand Russell It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. ~Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. ~Author Unknown When truth is divided, errors multiply. ~Eli Siegel, Damned Welcome Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. ~Emily Dickinson Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. ~John Updike No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise. ~William Congreve Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935 Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth? ~Patrick Sky Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb Always tell the truth. Even if you have to make it up. ~Author Unknown The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ~Adlai Stevenson The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do. ~E.V. Lucas The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ~Robert Brault The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ~Mark Twain Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. ~Lin Yutang A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. ~Saki Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships. ~Author Unknown It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. ~"Homer Simpson," from the television show The Simpsons There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. ~Groucho Marx One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. ~Mark Twain It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ~Jerome K. Jerome Always tell the truth. If you can't always tell the truth, don't lie. ~Author Unknown I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. ~Mark Twain

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Morality quotes
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist Morality is a private and costly luxury. ~Henry B. Adams, The Education of Henry Adams Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. ~Llewelyn Powys Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. ~Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1875 The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. ~Bertrand Russell What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ~Havelock Ellis The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. ~Goethe It is with flowers, as with moral qualities: the bright-coloured are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet-smelling. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ~Graham Greene Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus? ~Martin H. Fischer What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. ~Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues, 30 August 1941

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Hypocrisy Quotes
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One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others. ~Moliere Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Friendship," Essays, 1841 He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. ~Thomas Fuller Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself. ~Georg Groddeck, The Book of the It, 1950 Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves. ~Author Unknown Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. ~William Shakespeare, Henry VI As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb Colton All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. ~Logan Pearsall Smith The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. ~Jane Addams That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Experience," Essays, 1844 All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. ~Theodore M. Hesburgh Go put your creed into your deed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. ~Abraham Lincoln 'Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me. ~Josh Billings If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners - let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. ~Aldous Huxley Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ~H.G. Wells Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. ~Aesop, Fables The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. ~Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, 1963 Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. ~Rebecca West, The Strange Necessity, 1928 Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894 In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave - with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble. ~Geoffrey L. Rudd, The British Vegetarian, September/October 1962 It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. ~William Shakespeare The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. ~Benjamin Franklin Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one. ~Josh Billings They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. ~André Gide God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves. ~Thomas à Kempis We are not hypocrites in our sleep. ~William Hazlitt Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. ~Otto von Bismarck Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother! ~St Jerome Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom. ~Aldous Huxley When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ~George Bernard Shaw The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. ~James Russell Lowell It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ~Alfred Adler Live truth instead of professing it. ~Elbert Hubbard Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors. ~Jean Baptiste Molière, Tartuffe Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts. ~Laurence Sterne, 1760 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ~Elbert Hubbard Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588 We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. ~J. Pierpoint Morgan History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed. ~Louis Fischer Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. ~Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. ~Elizabeth Drew, The New Yorker, 16 February 1987 A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night. ~Thomas Macaulay We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. ~Bertrand Russell Few love to hear the sins they love to act. ~William Shakespeare He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. ~Saint Bernard of Clairvaux People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. ~J. Petit-Senn The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. ~Socrates Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. ~Jacob M. Braude Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue. ~François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Maximes, 1678 What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson A great deal of what passes for current Christianity consists in denouncing other people's vices and faults. ~Henry H. Williams I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. ~Abraham Lincoln The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. ~Author Unknown How many observe Christ's birthday! How few his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1757 Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

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Integrity Quotes
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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. ~Abraham Lincoln I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. ~Joseph Baretti, quoted by James Boswell, 1766, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ~William Shakespeare Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ~J.C. Watts If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. ~Alan Simpson Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism Character is much easier kept than recovered. ~Thomas Paine Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. ~Buddha One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. ~Arthur Freed Your life may be the only Bible some people read. ~Author Unknown Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to. ~Author Unknown Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? ~William Lloyd Garrison The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. ~William Safire Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck! ~Author Unknown But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow. ~Mark Twain, Huck Finn Character is higher than intellect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. ~Abraham Lincoln Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. ~Author Unknown Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ~Henry Ford Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. ~Mark Twain, "What Is Man?", 1906 If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done. ~John Lubbock You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. ~James D. Miles I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. ~Matthew Henry My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ~Thomas Paine Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right. ~Isaac Asimov To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. ~Charles Evans Hughes Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ~Aristotle You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverb A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. ~Logan Pearsall Smith Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. ~George Bernard Shaw Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ~Samuel Butler, Erewhon Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right. ~Mario Cuomo My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am. ~Author Unknown To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. ~Confucius We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849 You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. ~Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. ~Pietro Aretino, 10 May 1537 Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. ~Michel de Montaigne Be always sure you're right, then go ahead. ~Davy Crockett The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ~Red Auerbach Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not a sin - just stupid.) ~Robert A. Heinlein Goodness is the only investment that never fails. ~Henry David Thoreau If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it. ~Immanuel Hermass von Fichte I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met. ~Dwight Lyman Moody Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort. ~Bert Murray Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. ~Will Rogers My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. ~Indira Gandhi The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., speech, Boston, 8 January 1897 There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. ~Ogden Nash In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. ~Thomas Jefferson It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. ~Chester W. Nimitz I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to. ~Author Unknown Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ~Henry Louis Mencken, "Sententiae," This and That: A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1948 The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. ~Samuel Richardson I would rather be right than President. ~Henry Clay, speech, 1850 If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral. ~Samuel P. Ginder I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man. ~Thomas Jefferson, 1809 It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. ~Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit Goodness is beauty in the best estate. ~Christopher Marlowe The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart. ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws. ~Johann Sigurjonsson Righteousness is easy in retrospect. ~Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. ~Thomas Hardy Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911 I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. ~Logan Pearsall Smith I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. ~Frank Moore Colby It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows. ~Jean Baptiste Molière, Le Misanthrope If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare. ~William Arnot Conscience warns us before it reproaches us. ~Comtesse Diane (Marie Josephine de Suin de Beausacq), Maximes de la vie, 1908 If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it. ~Pablo Casals Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? ~Socrates Every human being has... an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. ~Lydia M. Child To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. ~Will Durant Every man over forty is responsible for his face. ~Abraham Lincoln Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ~William Faulkner There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1595 If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? ~Mark Twain God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. ~Alfred Korzyybski What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. ~Bodie Thoene, Warsaw Requiem I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. ~Mahatma Gandhi [T]hough of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something. ~Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1890 A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one. ~Martin H. Fischer Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ~Ann Landers Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. ~Suzanne Necker The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670 In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. ~Ambrose Bierce There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character. ~Frederick W. Faber If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. ~Georges Courteline, La philosophie de Georges Courteline, 1917 I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. ~Martin Luther How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. ~Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. ~Oscar Wilde You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. ~Somerset Maugham Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing. ~Michael Iapoce, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Boardroom I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. ~Abraham Lincoln In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men. ~Mary Renault Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897 The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. ~Henry David Thoreau Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Browne The only guy I have to get better than is who I am right now. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter 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 Washington If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. ~William Shakespeare The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ~Norman Vincent Peale Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. ~Arnold H. Glasow When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949 It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. ~A.A. Hodge Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. ~Victor Hugo Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good. ~Author Unknown Do whatever you can to capture, or recapture, your life spark - unless it harms others, in which case suffer with as much happiness as you can muster. Your nobility of spirit will spark itself. ~Corri Alius I did not use paint, I made myself up morally. ~Eleanora Duse, Le Gaulois, 1922 Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ~Abraham Lincoln Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. ~Mark Twain I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. ~Albert Einstein, "What I Believe," Forum and Century, 1930 A healthy mind has an easy breath. ~Author Unknown The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. ~B.C. Forbes Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ~Buddha The time is always right to do what is right. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may. ~Mark Twain 'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732 The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ~G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1905 Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others. ~Henry Taylor A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~Thomas Paine Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. ~Léon Blum I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956 If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. ~Author Unknown A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. ~Doug Larson Take care that no one hates you justly. ~Publilius Syrus It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage. ~William Lloyd Garrison You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. ~Harriet Woods Rule #1: Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules. ~Nordstrom's Employee Handbook Have a very good reason for everything you do. ~Laurence Olivier

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Self Respect quotes
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In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. ~Jane Haddam Self-respect is the fruit of discipline... ~Abraham J. Heschel He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ~Joan Didion I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ~Frederick Douglass A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. ~Axel Munthe To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. ~Joan Didion Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. ~Marcus Aurelius Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. ~Clint Eastwood They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. ~Mahatma Gandhi Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when e suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it. ~Whitney Griswold If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. ~Max Nordau Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. ~Theodore Parker No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ~George Bernard Shaw Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. ~John Herschel That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. ~William J.H. Boetcker I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. ~Michel de Montaigne Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. ~Joe Clark If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. ~Peter McArthur I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners. ~Laurence Sterne You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. ~Edward Koch Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough. ~Gail Sheehy Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential. ~Anna Gould Self-respect knows no considerations. ~Mahatma Gandhi In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. ~Robert Byrne The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition. ~Jeannette Rankin Respect yourself and others will respect you. ~Confucius A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else. ~Cardinal De Retz Respecting yourself means listening to your body and emotions continuously. Then acting beyond a linear logic to achieve ones goals. ~Author Unknown Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. ~Author Unknown If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. ~Maya Angelou It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. ~Dale E. Turner

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