Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
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Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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If not us, then who?If not now, then when?
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God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
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A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.
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He wasn't avoiding responsibility.. Though there was one thing he clung to. An excuse, perhaps, like the dead emperor. It was the soul of the wretch. Apathy. The belief that nothing was his fault, the belief that he couldn't change anything. If a man was cursed, or if he believed he didn't have to care, then he didn't need to hurt when he failed. Those failures couldn't have been prevented. Someone or something else had ordained them.
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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
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From a distance,' he says, 'my car looks just like every other car on the freeway, and Sarah Byrnes looks just like the rest of us. And if she's going to get help, she'll get it from herself or she'll get it from us. Let me tell you why I brought this up. Because the other day when I saw how hard it was for Mobe to go to the hospital to see her, I was embarrassed that I didn't know her better, that I ever laughed at one joke about her. I was embarrassed that I let some kid go to school with me for twelve years and turned my back on pain that must be unbearable. I was embarrassed that I haven't found a way to include her somehow the way Mobe has.'Jesus. I feel tears welling up, and I see them running down Ellerby's cheeks. Lemry better get a handle on this class before it turns into some kind of therapy group. So,' Lemry says quietly, 'your subject will be the juxtaposition of man and God in the universe?'Ellerby shakes his head. 'My subject will be shame.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
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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.
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You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.
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