“Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
“Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true”
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
Rodrigo Duterte (1945) Filipino politician and the 16th President of the Philippines
Duterte to New York Times: ‘You better stop your publishing’ https://globalnation.inquirer.net/155506/duterte-new-york-times-better-stop-publishing <br class="br">Targeted remarks to personalities and institutions
Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007) Russian-born American mathematical psychologist
If no one "volunteered," all would be killed, and there were only a few seconds to decide who would be the hero.
Anatol Rapoport (1988), quoted in: William Poundstone (2011) Prisoner's Dilemma. p. 203
1970s and later
John Sloan (1871–1951) American painter
In John Sloan on Drawing and Painting. Mineola NY: Dover Publications, 2000. Originally published in 1939 as The Gist of Art, p. 7.
The Gist of Art (1939)
“Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet