Frederick William Robertson Quotes

Some defeats are better than victories. A defeat endured as the result of contest conducted in a fair and honorable manner is a thousand times more creditable to the defeated party than a victory gained by all the mean and unscrupulous arts of the wire pullers.

A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

Now to act with integrity, according to that strength of mind and body with which our creator hath endowed each of use, appears necessary for all.

I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy.

Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.

Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.

The courageous struggle for a noble cause should be considered success itself.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.

You think that because I want to do what’s right, because I want to make things better, I’m weak,” Claire said. “Or that I’m stupid. But I’m not. It takes a lot more strength to know how bad the world is and not want to be part of that, give in to it. And I do know, Kim. Believe me.