#grit

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #grit




Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.


John Webster


#fame #integrity #life #death

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me?


Charlotte Brontë


#courtship #dignity #empowerment #equality #feminism

Friendship is thinking of the other person first.


George Alexiou


#happiness #inspirational #integrity #joy #love

I've heard it said of faith that first we jump, and then we grow wings. Integrity is like that too, I think. That's what you have to gain. The sacrifice turns into a gift that is priceless.


Matt Baldwin


#faith

God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!


Charles H. Spurgeon


#equality

Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.


Will Rogers


#integrity #family

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.


Frantz Fanon


#fanon #freedom #negritude #onwuegbute #family

Still, I never heard him say that he hated or wanted to hurt or kill someone for all the horrific things that had been happening to him and his family.


Savo Heleta


#dignity #humanity #integrity #not-my-turn-to-die #righteousness

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of." But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#dishonesty #falsification #family #financial-distress #honor

You are the machos, the life, the future of our families. You are all that's left, so you must protect our mothers and grow and do good and have families of your own. I love you. I do. I do.


Victor Villaseñor


#family #inspirational #integrity #love #family