Brave Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

— Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

— Abraham Lincoln

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

— Seneca the Younger

Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be…

— Lucy Parsons

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

— George Santayana

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

— Pope Pius II

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

— Anonymous

With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.

— Christopher Columbus