Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
- Topic: Character, Leadership, Respect
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I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.
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.
Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.
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.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.
He who fears the sun will not become chief.
He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
