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You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.
-- Malcolm Forbes
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.
-- Confucius
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
--Robert F. Kennedy
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
--John F. Kennedy
Superman isn't brave. You can't be brave if you are indestructible. It's every day people like me and you that are brave, Knowing we can easily be defeated but still continue forward. That's TRUE Bravery!
--Jesse Downs
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
--Thomas Carlyle
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
--Thomas Jefferson
Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.
--Ovid
It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
He who cannot forgive others destroys a bridge over which he must pass himself. For every man has a need to be forgiven.
--From a book about Galileo. Motto taken by Saint John Gaulberto.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Reputation is a large bubble that bursts when you try to blow it up yourself.
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
Though another may have more money, beauty, brains than you; yet when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
-- Charles Du Bos
A hero is a man who does what he can.
-- Roman Rollard
One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
-- Sigmund Freud
Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.
-- Tex Randall
Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
-- Charles Reed
What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.
-- Portuguese proverb