Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
- Topic: Integrity, Time
- Location: Honduras, Roatan
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
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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.
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 world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
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 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.
It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
