In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The true mark of greatness is not stridency but magnanimity.” — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Parenthood is the magnanimity of the soul, not the mere outcome of a biological process. (Dr Abin. From TATTERED LOTUS)” — Dr. Abin Copy Share Image
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity." — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations. — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
God Most High has said, "Is the reward of virtue aught save virtue?" . . . Know, O man, that the covenant… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and… — William James Copy Share Image
We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they… — John Irving Copy Share Image
This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
If you desire to be magnanimous, undertake nothing rashly, and fear nothing thou undertakest; fear nothing but infamy; dare anything but injury;… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them… Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say,… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there… — Mark Crispin Miller Copy Share Image
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean?… — Zeina Copy Share Image
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
“wisdom needs no violence...As it is we have played at war – that’s what’s vile! We play at magnanimity and all that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image