Robert E. Lee Quotes

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say, he obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.

However , it’s over, and I’ll take no revenge on his folly – I can afford to suffer anything, hereafter! Should the meanest thing alive slap me on the cheek, I’d not only turn the other, but I’d ask pardon for provoking it – and, as proof, I’ll go make my peace with Edgar instantly – Good night – I’m an angel!

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

You can see how he changed on the surface. But at the core of it all, I think Superman has remained the same - a character with incredible powers but almost superhuman humility and restraint.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

I don't find it hard to stay humble.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

Sometimes the only way you conquer the pull of power is to set it down.

Never descend to the ways of those above you.

He who is strong, concedes.

It takes a special kind of grace to walk away from power.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

I wasn't raised to be the braggart.