"Integrity comes not from privilege, textbooks, or profession, but from being grounded in humility."

Morality, Integrity, Humility, Authenticity, Character

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"Integrity comes not from privilege, textbooks, or profession, but from being grounded in humility."

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"The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Morality, Malice, Benevolence, Reality, Imagination

"We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

Morality, Suffering, Memory, Ethics, Animals

"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Morality, Action, Judgment, Ethics

"One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty and makes the creditor wait tediously. But that second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor? the debt of money or the debt of thought to mankind, of genius to nature? For you, O broker, there is not other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Debt, Justice, Truth

"There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul."

R. Alan Woods, American Author

Morality, Sin, Truth, Wisdom

"Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers."

Elie Wiesel, American Novelist

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"The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality."

Pat Robertson, American Clergyman

Morality, Being, Public, Symbol

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

George Orwell, British Author

Morality, Humanity, Behavior, Limit

"The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Morality, Evil, Action, Responsibility, Inaction

"The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Morality, Sin, Love, Compassion

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"Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery."

Mindset

"Being the best is rarely within our reach. Doing our best is always within our reach."

Success

"Before you save the world, make sure your own house is in order."

Responsibility

"Praying without gratitude, first, is more like complaining."

Spiritual

"Trying to figure it all out is impossible. But what isn't impossible is to:Have gratitudeStay PositiveHave faithBe friendly and kindListen first; speak secondDo your best, not try to be the bestEnjoy the ride!"

Life

"Just because someone throws their success in your face doesn't mean you have to let it get in your eyes."

Comparison

"Despite our challenges, hope lies in the reality that our story does not end here."

Hope

"A sure way to go broke is to spend your outer riches before you have saved enough of your inner ones."

Finance

"It's better to get busy then to stay bitter."

Motivation

"The more you choose to focus on the positive, the more positive will come into focus. The choice is yours."

Mindset