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- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th President of the United States
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.
- James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) American Unitarian Minister and Author
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
- Edward R. Lyman
Principle -- particularly moral principle -- can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true.
- Passage from Life of Christ
Every man has an obscure respect for courage in others, especially if it is moral courage, the rarest and most difficult sort of bravery... It makes the very brute understand that this man is more than a man.
- David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) American, University President, Author
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
- Samuel Goodrich
Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt.
- St. Augustine
Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American Presbyterian Minister
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.
- William F. Scolavino
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
- Louis Nizer (1902-1994) American Lawyer
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) British-American Writer
Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Rebecca West
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.
- Anonymous
Courage is imperial. It underlies true achievement. Unless we have moral nerve to live out our convictions, they are of small account.
- Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43-17 BC) Roman Poet
Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) German Philosopher
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me.
- Johann von Goethe (1749-1832) German Poet and Dramatist
Until one is committed, there is always hesitancy, the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one element of truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans - that moment one commits oneself, then providence moves all.
- Johann Lavater
Firmness founded upon principle, upon truth and right, order and law,duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.
- William Faulkner (1897-1962) American Writer
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
- Samuel Smiles
To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself; earnest
resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence.
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