#oral

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#means-justifying-the-ends #moral-courage #courage

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#courage

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#leadership #loyalty #moral-courage #courage

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inspirational #moral-courage #public-opinion #religion #courage

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong! ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#means-justifying-the-ends #moral-courage #courage

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17) ↗

— Rollo May

#courage #moral-courage #courage

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. ↗

— James Thurber

#decline #english #english language #expression #fact

All the things that make the character of an individual great, comes from the moral values he or she possesses. Those are the things that give such an individual, strength, vision, integrity, courage and understanding of how to behave toward others. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#courage

They make you settle for second best." That's what I like about the movies. There's always some minor character standing round to tell you the moral, just in case you're too dumb to figure it out for yourself. "You never get what you want. ↗

— Connie Willis

#second-best #movies

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#morals #right #right-and-wrong #wrong #death