Nitobe Inazo
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Integrity is the backbone. Without it, nothing stands.
"Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature."
Bushido, ch. 3 (Rectitude or Justice), Nitobe Inazo, 1900
Courage means doing what's right.
"Courage is doing what is right."
Bushido, ch. 4 (Courage, the Spirit of Daring and Bearing), Nitobe Inazo, 1900
Real courage: live when it's right to live.
"it is true courage to live when it is right to live, and to die only when it is right to die"
Bushido, ch. 4 (Courage, the Spirit of Daring and Bearing), Nitobe Inazo, 1900
Calm is courage at rest.
"Tranquillity is courage in repose."
Bushido, ch. 4 (Courage, the Spirit of Daring and Bearing), Nitobe Inazo, 1900
The truly brave stay calm. They laugh at storms.
"A truly brave man is ever serene ... he laughs at storms."
Bushido, ch. 4 (Courage, the Spirit of Daring and Bearing), Nitobe Inazo, 1900
A big mind always has room for one more thing.
"has always room for something more."
Bushido, ch. 4 (Courage, the Spirit of Daring and Bearing), Nitobe Inazo, 1900
The bravest are the gentlest. The loving are the bold.
"The bravest are the tenderest, the loving are the daring."
Bushido, ch. 5 (Benevolence, the Feeling of Distress), Nitobe Inazo, 1900
Too much rightness turns rigid. Too much kindness turns weak.
"Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; Benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness."
Bushido, ch. 5 (Benevolence, the Feeling of Distress), Nitobe Inazo, 1900
Good manners are power at rest.
"Fine manners, therefore, mean power in repose."
Bushido, ch. 6 (Politeness), Nitobe Inazo, 1900
A samurai's word needs no paper.
"promises were generally made and fulfilled without a written pledge"
Bushido, ch. 7 (Veracity or Truthfulness), Nitobe Inazo, 1900
Real endurance is bearing what you think you can't.
"To bear what you think you cannot bear is really to bear."
Bushido, ch. 8 (Honor), Nitobe Inazo, 1900
Life is a long road with a heavy load. Don't hurry.
"The life of man is like going a long distance with a heavy load upon the shoulders. Haste not."
Bushido, ch. 8 (Honor), Nitobe Inazo, 1900
Blame no one. Keep watching your own flaws.
"Reproach none, but be forever watchful of thine own short-comings."
Bushido, ch. 8 (Honor), Nitobe Inazo, 1900
The nightingale won't sing? I'll wait until it does.
"I will wait till she opens her lips."
Bushido, ch. 8 (Honor), Nitobe Inazo, 1900
Keep your mind level.
"the ideal of self-restraint is to keep our mind _level_"
Bushido, ch. 11 (Self-Control), Nitobe Inazo, 1900
A samurai was a person of action.
"A samurai was essentially a man of action."
Bushido, ch. 10 (Education and Training of a Samurai), Nitobe Inazo, 1900