The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Saints need sinners.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

I don’t regard myself as a cracking good climber. I’m just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I’m good on ice.

The skin of my character in ‚The Man Who Fell to Earth‘ was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

If you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you’d be a very strange person indeed.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.