All Quotes
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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.Chris Evert
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.Cicero
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.Solon
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.Martin Luther King Jr.
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.Saint Augustine
To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.Sir Walter Scott
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.William Shakespeare
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.Edmund Burke
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.Antoine de Saint-Exupery