"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle."

Morality, Courage, Principle, Ethics, Action

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"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

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"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

Action, Goals, Obvious

"Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods."

Art, Truth, Anger, Gods

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

Desire, Excellence, Potential, Succeed

"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

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"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Morality, Godliness, Spirit, Virtue, Leadership

"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Exaggeration, Truth, Human, Emotion

"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Morality, Shame, Deception, Greed, Corruption

"I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Morality, Justice, Explanation, Truth

"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Morality, Value System, Pulpit, Culture, Faith

"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Humility, Contrast, Behavior

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"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

"Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods."

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

"Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs."

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."

"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

"I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary."

"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."

"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."