Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

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.

If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, that's when you fail.

The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

I'll never take the easy way out.

I'm all of those things that I was brought up to really value: honesty, stick with it, don't quit, don't cut and run, stay in there. When you think things might fall apart, believe that you have enough for victory. That's the stuff I have in me.

Be bold, but be fair. Don't give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail

You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of great strength.” “Strength,” she said with a little laugh. “I gave her strength, and look what she did with it.

When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.

True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.

I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

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

Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.

Do well and right and let the world sink.