"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."

Pasternak, Boris on difficulties
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"For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on war   

"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."

Confucius on war
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"It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward."

Ibarruri, Dolores on war   

"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."

Rand, Ayn on war   

"It is better to be killed than frightened to death."

Surtees, Robert S. on war   

"A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on."

Unknown, Source on war
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"The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear."

Burke, Edmund on weakness
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"They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid."

Bierce, Ambrose on vanity   

"Tact is knowing how far to go too far."

Cocteau, Jean on tact and tactfulness
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"One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude."

Orwell, George on sensitivity
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"It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true."

Browning, Robert on sincerity
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"Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile."

Byron, Lord on sincerity
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"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."

Carlyle, Thomas on sincerity
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"Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends."

Conrad, Joseph on sincerity   

"Weak people cannot be sincere."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on sincerity
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"You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on sincerity   

"There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination."

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) on sincerity   

"Candor gives wings to strength."

Motto on sincerity   

"The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on sincerity
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"The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere."

Schulz, Charles M. on sincerity
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"Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on sincerity   

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."

Wilde, Oscar on sincerity
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"Strength is a matter of a made up mind."

Beecher, John on strength
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"It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on strength
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"Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on strength   

"You expect to break me? Impossible! You broke me years ago. You killed me years ago..."

Manson, Charles on strength
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Einstein, Albert on stupidity
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

Franklin, Benjamin on stupidity
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"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."

Khrushchev, Nikita on survival   

"To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself."

Orwell, George on survival
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"Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on survival   

"I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how"

Wiesel, Elie on survival   

"I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt."

A Course In Miracles on choice
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"Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?"

Allenbaugh, Eric on choice
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"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."

Brown, Les on choice
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"Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something."

Carpenter, Liz on choice   

"You are either part of the solution or part of the problem."

Cleaver, Eldridge on choice
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"A human being is a deciding being."

Frankl, Viktor E. on choice   

"You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are."

Guest, Edgar A. on choice
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