Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
- Topic: Integrity, Respect, Self
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There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.
To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than others their opinions more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
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Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.
With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.
When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes thee world a better place to live.
No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.
Esteem to your higher self.
