Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-08-27 Aug 27, 2003From my experience of hundreds of children, I know that they have perhaps a finer sense of honour than you or I have. The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiCharacter is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonTreat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOur repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Aug 26, 2003But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.~ Hartley ColeridgeThere never was a bad man that had ability for good service.~ Edmund BurkeNo person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.~ Calvin CoolidgeDo your duty, and leave the rest to heaven.~ Pierre Corneille Aug 25, 2003Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.~ AesopDignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving them.~ AristotleNever esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.~ Marcus Aurelius AntoninusHonor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Aug 22, 2003Morality cannot exist one minute without freedom... Only a free man can possibly be moral. Unless a good deed is voluntary, it has no moral significance.~ Everett Dean MartinSince they have dared, I too shall dare. I shall tell the truth because I pledged myself to tell it if justice regularly empowered did not do so fully, unmitigated. My duty is to speak; I have no wish to be an accomplice.~ Emile ZolaCount it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.~ Juvenal Aug 21, 2003We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonBut when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.~ Alan WattsTo believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.~ Oscar WildeIt is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.~ Voltaire Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print