Quotes by historical personages

“Non-violence does not admit of running away from danger… Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence.”

Gandhi

“Heroism, vigour, steadiness, resourcefulness, not fleeing even in a battle, generosity, and leadership, these are the duties of a kshatriya born of his nature.”

Krishna, in the Bhagavad-Gita

Of early Texans: “They did not lie, cheat, oppress the weak, discuss respectable women, or backbite.”

J. Frank Dobie

“The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.”

Billy Graham

“I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my children why I did take part in it, and not why I did not.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Anybody can become angry— that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purposes, and in the right way— that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”

Aristotle

“The test for one’s behavior pattern: relationship to society, relationship to one’s work, relationship to sex.”

Alfred Adler, 1870-1937, father of individual psychology