Acknowledge Quote by Samuel Johnson

Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation…

— Aristotle

Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a…

— Samuel Johnson

A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.

— Bruce Lee

If man do not find in himself the required (or wished, or wanted, - "voulue", Fr.) force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can…

— African Spir

In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards…

— Ephrem the Syrian

He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself…

— Thomas Jefferson

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

— Wellington Mara

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the…

— Walter Scott