Khalil Gibran Quotes

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

The only way to survive among the evil and corrupt is to be even more wicked and more corrupt than they are!

Men of most renowned virtue have by transgressing most truly kept the law.

Truth is not half way between right and wrong;

Today we need a special kind of courage. Not the kind needed in battle, but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right, everything that is true and honest. We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics, so that we can show the world that we are not afraid of the future.

The advocacy of truth will always excite hostility, and he who enforces justice will ever have to combat against the powers of this world.

I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that.