Free Quotable Quotes by Editors Of Reader's Digest Page A

is looking for a way out.
    â€” G EORGE J EAN N ATHAN
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    The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
    â€” W ILLIAM A RTHUR W ARD
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    A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all­—he’s walking on them.
    â€” L EONARD L OUIS L EVINSON
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    An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
    â€” S YDNEY J . H ARRIS
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    M ORALITY IS ITS OWN ADVOCATE  . . .
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    Morality is its own advocate; it is never necessary to apologize for it.
    â€” E DITH L . H ARRELL
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    The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong.”
    â€” S YDNEY J . H ARRIS
    Pieces of Eight
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    Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
    â€” A RISTOTLE
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    It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit.
    â€” J OSH B ILLINGS
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    The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.
    â€” R ICK S HUMAN
    in
Time
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    We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
    â€” C . S . L EWIS
    The Abolition of Man
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    It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
    â€” N OËL C OWARD
    Blithe Spirit
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    A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.
    â€” D ANISH PROVERB
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    One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.
    â€” K NUTE K . R OCKNE
    Coaching
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    The time is always right to do what is right.
    â€” R EV. M ARTIN L UTHER K ING J R.
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    Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
    â€” R OBERT B RAULT
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    The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
    â€” F RANÇOIS DE L A R OCHEFOUCAULD
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    To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
    â€” G . K . C HESTERTON
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    If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
    â€” H ENNY Y OUNGMAN
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    Be on guard against excess. Zeal that is too ardent burns more than it reheats.
    â€” A LEC P ELLETIER
    Le Festin des Morts
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    What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.
    â€” B ODIE T HOENE
    Warsaw Requiem
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    The arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
    â€” R EV. M ARTIN L UTHER K ING J R.
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    If you don’t want anyone to know, don’t do it.
    â€” C HINESE PROVERB
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    No virtue can be great if it is not constant.
    â€” A LFONSO M ILAGRO
    Los Cinco Minutos de Dios
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    Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
    â€” A RNOLD H . G LASOW
    in
Forbes
magazine
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    Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn’t do at all.
    â€” M ORRIS M ANDEL
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    You can’t run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.
    â€” J OHN L EO
    in
U.S. News & World Report
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    Stigmas are the corollaries of values. If work, independence, responsibility, respectability are valued, then their converse must be devalued, seen as disreputable.
    â€” G ERTRUDE H IMMELFARB
    The De-moralization of Society
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    The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
    â€” J ANE A DDAMS
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    He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
    â€” S ENECA
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    A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.
    â€” G EN. C OLIN