Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Theodore Roosevelt

Mots clés moral-courage character



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From a distance,' he says, 'my car looks just like every other car on the freeway, and Sarah Byrnes looks just like the rest of us. And if she's going to get help, she'll get it from herself or she'll get it from us. Let me tell you why I brought this up. Because the other day when I saw how hard it was for Mobe to go to the hospital to see her, I was embarrassed that I didn't know her better, that I ever laughed at one joke about her. I was embarrassed that I let some kid go to school with me for twelve years and turned my back on pain that must be unbearable. I was embarrassed that I haven't found a way to include her somehow the way Mobe has.'

Jesus. I feel tears welling up, and I see them running down Ellerby's cheeks. Lemry better get a handle on this class before it turns into some kind of therapy group.

So,' Lemry says quietly, 'your subject will be the juxtaposition of man and God in the universe?'

Ellerby shakes his head. 'My subject will be shame.

Chris Crutcher

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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick Douglass

Mots clés self-esteem integrity moral-courage



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Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will. Integrity is not a search for the rewards of integrity. Maybe all you ever get for it is the largest kick in the ass the world can provide. It is not supposed to be a productive asset.

John D. MacDonald

Mots clés integrity moral-courage



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Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

Justin Cronin

Mots clés inspirational courage goodness moral-courage character unsung-heroes



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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Abraham Lincoln

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln

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May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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If not us, then who?
If not now, then when?

John E. Lewis

Mots clés integrity change moral-courage action civil-rights personal-responsibility



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