The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
- Topic: Honesty, Life
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Appearance rules the world.
There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by.
Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not.
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
