Mary Manley Quotes

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

A king who desires his own welfare must always forgive litigants, infants, aged and sick men, who inveigh against him.

Forgiveness is a basis for moral and ethical behavior.

Mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

So many of the high ranking about me have discarded mercy as a weakness.

The brave only know how to forgive.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

Mercy trumps justice.

Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.