Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
- Topic: Awareness, Honor
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.
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Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
A problem well-put is half-solved.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.
Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!
Ignorance never settle a question.
Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
