Decently Quotes

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. — Thomas Carlyle
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then… — Adam Michnik
I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are… — Brigid Brophy
The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win. — Vince Lombardi
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people… — Art Linkletter
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be… — John T. Flynn
For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they… — Henry Ward Beecher
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated… — Anita Roddick
We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying… — Thomas Szasz
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be… — George Bernard Shaw
Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb… — Joseph Conrad
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means… — Aleister Crowley
Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of Godâ€™s approval. Courage… — Thomas S. Monson
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched… — George Bernard Shaw
We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language. — George Bernard Shaw
I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me… — Mary Doria Russell
A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at… — Frances O'Grady
I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
What Joe Hamilton lacked more than anything else in the world was some one to kick him. Many a man who might have lived decently… — Paul Laurence Dunbar
Having integrity...means being completely true to what is inside you - to what you know is right...what you feel you must do, regardless of the… — Samuel Goldwyn

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