"Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out for the group before you look out for yourself. Don't whine or make excuses. Judge others by their actions and not by their race or other characteristics."

-- James F. Amos

#Character Quotes #Race Quotes #Judging Quotes

“When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.”
“I can hang out with all my boyfriend's friends. I know how to roll with the guys.”
“Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.”
“With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.”
“Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more I think of that, the more deeply true it seems to be. It follows that one must range oneself actively against everything that diminishes man, and involve oneself in all struggles which tend to liberate and enlarge him. This categorical imperative is by no way lessened by the fact that such an involvement is inevitably soiled by error: it is a worse error merely to live for oneself, caught within traditions which are soiled by inhumanity.”

Source : Victor Serge (2002). “Memoirs of a Revolutionary”, p.374, University of Iowa Press
“Learn to think for yourself, unless of course you can identify someone else with better judgement, and a flashlight.”
“I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law.”
“When I get married I'm going to make the marriage work. Getting married is forever, no matter what my spouse does.”

Source : Sarah Mlynowski (2011). “Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)”, p.28, Harper Collins

You may also like:

Chesty Puller
David Petraeus
Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
James Mattis
John M. McHugh
Former United States Representative
John R. Allen
Leon Panetta
Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Martin Dempsey
Ray Mabus
United States Secretary of the Navy
Raymond T. Odierno