I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.
Richard Greenberg NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006
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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
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A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus On the Universe
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
Elmer G. Letterman
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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt My Day
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard
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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius The Confucian Analects
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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
Cicero
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln Lincoln's Own Stories
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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathaniel Emmons
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The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander
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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru Oprah Magazine, May 2004
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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
Marie Henri Beyle
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold Ethan of Athos, 1986
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
Joan Didion "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What reveals a man is his behavior in time of hunger.
African (Ovambo) proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: character integrity

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our needs.
George Eliot Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: character actions

To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.

Robert Fulghum Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: appearance character

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin Treasury of Women's Quotations
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The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.
Charles Caleb Coulton The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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If better were within, better would come out.
Scottish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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And nature must obey necessity.
William Shakespeare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: character need circumstances

It is in virtue that happiness consists, for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.
Zeno The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: virtue character happiness

The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. From
James Allen First Things First: To Live, to
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: actions integrity character

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau Spirituality and Health , Spring 2001
Categories: morality ethics character

What we are on the inside, what we continually think about, eventually shows in our words, actions, and even our countenances.
Linda Dillow Calm My Anxious Heart : A Woman's Guide to Contentment
Categories: attitude thoughts character

Character is higher than intellect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
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The reward of patience is patience.
St. Augustine Slowing Down in a Speeded Up World
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...character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion...
Aristotle Rhetoric and Poetics
Categories: character leadership success

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: character choice love

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: character spirituality morality

There is nothing so advantageous to a
Terence Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: forgiveness character patience

What you must dare is to be yourself.
Dag Hammarskjold To Do Doing Done!
Categories: courage authenticity character

How important is the heart! It is there
Charles Swindoll The Quest for Character : Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ
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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever so little scar...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.
William James Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: character actions personality

Kindness is women, not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my love.
William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: kindness appearances character

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.
Malcolm Forbes The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character adversity mood

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, that gives us fiber.
Frank Crane The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
Categories: personal responsibility character

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
Samuel Johnson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: gratitude appreciation character

A truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can equally embrace great things and small.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: wisdom knowledge character

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life, so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content.
Jane Seymour Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: integrity character virtue

You cannot trust a man in the world that does not begin with his own heart, his own character, and his own life.
Russell H. Conwell Treasury of Inspiration
Categories: integrity character honesty

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: character relationships understanding

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
Miguel de Unamuno You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: habit character self-control

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: speech action character

To believe in luck...is skepticism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: luck belief character

Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it.
Grenville Kleiser The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: judgement trust character

I couldn't say no. And so I said yes.
John Whitehead The Greatest Generation Speaks
Categories: character strength courage

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
Samuel Butler Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: thoughts actions character

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of
Dag Hammarskjold Markings
Categories: habits character integrity

We change, whether we like it or not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: change life character

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
John Ruskin "Early Light," InTouch Magazine, May 2001.
Categories: humility integrity character

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: faith character failure

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: success failure character

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed... Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: character growth adversity

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
William Bridges Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes: Strategies for coping with the difficult, painful, and confusing times in your life
Categories: life living character

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted.
C.G. Jung The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling
Categories: character meaning fulfillment

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: beauty character perception

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character...
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: character habits patterns

Good actions enoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
Miguel de Cervantes The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action works effort character

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden The Cassell Companion to Quotations
Categories: virtue set an example behavior actions character

We never know how high we are

Emily Dickinson Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: character trials challenges adversity

Beauty will fade, but not goodness.
Philippine proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: beauty appearances soul character

We'd never know how high we are

Emily Dickinson Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: character trials challenges adversity

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: anger character personality self-control

Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: courage bravery virtues character

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: courage bravery character integrity

While you live, tell truth and shame the devil.
William Shakespeare (King Henry IV) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: truth honesty character integrity

...men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth.
Aristotle Rhetoric
Categories: truth honesty character integrity

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Martin Buber Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: personal growth spirituality character

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
John Chapman The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character actions work effort

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. We need to be careful, upon achieving happiness, not to lose the virtues which have produced it.
Harry Harrison The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: character principles integrity happiness joy

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: aspirations hopes dreams character

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: work character integrity excellence

In the long run, a short cut seldom is.
Malcolm Forbes The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work effort character honesty

Avarice is the root of all evil.
African (Swahili) proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: greed money materialism character

As-if principle: If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
William James Words for All Occasions
Categories: character growth self-improvement self-determination

The hero must have some form of higher purpose in life.
Barbara Tuchman A World of Ideas
Categories: heroism courage character set an example mentor

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.
King Solomon Proverbs 22:1
Categories: reputation integrity character honesty

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
William F. Halsey The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
Categories: character challenges difficulties circumstances

Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: honestry truth character responsibility

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: talents skills character growth

You are your choices.
John-Paul Sartre Making Choices : Discover the Joy in Living the Life You Want to Lead
Categories: choices personal responsibility character

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
Julia Cameron The Artist's Way : A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Categories: personal growth character development

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
Joseph Hall Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: moderation simplicity choice character

Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Warren G. Bennis On Becoming a Leader
Categories: leadership character integrity mentor

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: adversary education character development

The bird is known by his note, the man by his words.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: character honesty trust integrity

When push comes to shove, think independently.
Chuck Swindoll The Quest for Character: Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ
Categories: peer pressure integrity character

Our high resolves

L.E. Landon The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: actions integrity character intentions

Morality is not a fixed and stark system... It is a task never finished, something always present to guide our judgment and inspire our conduct.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: morality ethics character conduct

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
Clementine Paddleford Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: wishing action effort character

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Lou Holtz "Trying times hope to build real character" by Harvey Mackay,Arizona Republic, 10/31/2001
Categories: character adversity challenges growth

Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: compassion kindness humility character

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on
Joan Didion Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: character honesty self-awareness integrity

To pursue success effectively, you must build supportive relationships that will help you work toward
Stedman Graham You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success
Categories: success character integrity trust

Like a fence, character cannot be strengthened by whitewash.
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: character change personal responsibility

What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.
Socrates The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: personal responsiblity integrity character

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
Socrates The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: honor character integrity authenticity

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.
Mark Twain Words for All Occasions
Categories: character reputation gossip ridicule

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alex Hamilton The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: integrity honesty authenticity character

Character is the foundation to accomplishment--if you have diligence and determination, you'll succeed.
Beverly Chiodo "Character communication boosts success" by Dale Dauten
Categories: character success achievement excellence

Beauty adorns virtue.
Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo: Discovering the Life of Leornardo da Vinci: A Biography
Categories: inner beauty authenticity integrity character

Fear is the parent of both courage and of cowardice. Which child will you choose to raise?
Joe Tye Never Fear, Never Quit : A Story of Courage and Perseverance
Categories: fear courage strength character

Rather suffer wrong than do it.
Thomas Fuller Random House Webster's Quotationary
Categories: character integrity kindness compassion

Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: usefulness character work balance

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: contentment sadness self-reliance will character

A little integrity is better than any career.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: integrity character principles honesty

Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness peace character self-esteem

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body...We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's feature, any meaness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Henry David Thoreau Light from Many Lamps
Categories: wellness diet character habit

All censure of a man's self if oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
Samuel Johnson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: perfectionism complaint conceit character

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: patience serenity balance character

Whatever you have, spend less.
Samuel Johnson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: frugality moderation character money

It is more from carelessness about the truth than from intentional lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: truth integrity honesty character

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Franklin Day Planner, November 19, 1994
Categories: character attitude happiness joy cheerfulness

There can be no high civility without a deep morality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: society morality character courtesy

They're only truly great who are truly good.
George Chapman Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: greatness character integrity motive

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: model example actions words character

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character patience wisdom personality

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: courage strength character action

He who is greedy is always in want.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: greed acceptance living character

Oh imitators, you slavish herd.
Horace The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: authenticity simplicity character originality

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.
Samuel Butler The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work meaning character personality

It is your choices that make you uniquely you.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: choice authenticity character self-awareness

The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades when speaking fails.
William Shakespeare (The Winter's Tale)
Categories: innocence character honesty integrity

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: acceptance courage integrity character

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: action work effort character

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
Rabelais You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: wisdom motive attitude character

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.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: character apology sorry principles values

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.
Grenville Kleiser The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: independence character strength courage

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations : 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: character purpose morals choice

Selfishness has never been admired.
C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity
Categories: selfishness egotism egotistical relationships character

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure
Bill Cosby The 1911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Categories: truth success failure principles character

One must think like a hero in order to behave like a decent human being.
May Sarton 'Bureaucracy spans a comic hero' by Dale Dauten, Arizona Republic 6/3/99
Categories: character virtue attitude decency honesty

Character is destiny.
Heraclitus Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: character success integrity decisions future

Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Stephen Covey "Unit of One," Fast Company, April 1999
Categories: loyalty gossip trust integrity character

Habit is habit and not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Mark Twain Franklin Seasons DayPlanner, October 20, 1993
Categories: habit rut character change growth self-improvement

Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: blame excuse responsibility integrity character

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.
William Shakespeare [Troilus and Cressida] Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: depth spirituality character integrity inner life

I have made myself what I am.
Tecumseh A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: choices responsibility decisions integrity character

Sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Frances E. Willard The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: actions habits character success excellence

Do not hurt your neighbor, for it is not him you wrong but yourself.
Shawnee proverb A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: consideration kindness honesty character integrity

The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Sequichie Comingdeer A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: fear action self-control courage character

Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful, quite beautiful and extremely hard.
Maya Angelou You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success
Categories: pressure stress change character development

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil, while fretting and fuming only increase your own torments.
Thomas Jefferson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: acceptance courage perseverance strength character

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Henry David Thoreau Power Quotes
Categories: wisdom leadership integrity character action

Without discipline, there is no life at all.
Katherine Hepburn Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: discipline character meaning fulfillment purpose

Virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
Mlle. de Scudery Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: temptation virtue character trials mistakes

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Faith Baldwin Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: character integrity words actions honesty

Character builds slowly, but it can be
Faith Baldwin Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: character mistakes ethics morality choice

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
Attributed to Edward Wallis Hoch The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: gossip character integrity speech habits

Always listen to a man when he describes the faults of others. Ofttimes, most times, he's describing his own, revealing himself.
Malcolm Forbes The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: gossip character fault-finding criticism

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Moroccan proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: effort work action character appearances

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
Matthew Arnold The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: actions habits character personal responsibility

A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: personal growth imperfections adversity character

Virtue is like rich stone, best plain set.
Francis Bacon The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: virtue character appearances soul integrity

...Inner authority only develops when we realize that, in spite of all the things that happen to us that are outside of our control, through our choices in response to such events and through what we initiate ourselves, we are still, in large measure, 'authoring' our own lives. In the process, we find our own ways to be in this world, drawing on what is deepest and best and most creative in us.
Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
Categories: strength character choice responsibility living

Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own.
Chinese proverb Words for All Occasions
Categories: mistakes errors character flaws faults

Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey; they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Karl Jaspers Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: ideals ethics character morals morality

Sanctity does not so much depend upon doing extraordinary actions, as upon doing our ordinary actions extraordinarily well.
Richard Challoner Cassell Companion to Quotations
Categories: character virtue excellence work routine

Virtue which has never been attacked
Mlle. de Scudery Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: virtue character temptation trials strength

...discernment is not simply about resisting what is evil, self-absorbed, or destructive. It is about foundational identity. It is about who we know ourselves ultimately to be. It is about paying attention to the ways in which the limited power we wield, the modest respect we command, the taken-for-granted resources we hold provide us with our primary sense of meaning. To what extent do we "know" ourselves first as civic and church leaders, or as respectable citizens or conscientious parents or homeowners or degree holders or job holders and not at all as beloved daughters and sons of God?
We are beloved not because of what we do. We are beloved because we are.
Wendy M. Wright Passing Angels: The Arts of Spiritual Discernment by Wendy M. Wright. Weavings, Nov/Dec 1995.
Categories: identity self-image character personality spirituality

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Felicia Hemans Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: strength character adversity suffering pain

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham Simple Abundance
Categories: self-awareness self-knowlege self-nurture character authenticity

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
Henry Fielding The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: adversity character difficulties challenges problems

Anger dies quickly with a good man.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: anger mad character forgiveness forgiving repent

I am a feather for each wind that blows.
William Shakespeare (The Winter's Tale) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: morality values opinion integrity character

It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: truth honesty character integrity listening

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little draughty.
Samuel Butler The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: openness character beliefs believing tolerance

There is no road or ready way to virtue.
Sir Kenelm Digby Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: growth self-improvement character morality ethics

Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state. This does not mean that a man's circumstances at any given time are an indication of his entire character, but that those circumstances are so intimately connected with some vital thought-element within himself that, for the time being, they are indispensable to his development.
James Allen As a Man Thinketh
Categories: thought attitude character growth self-improvement

Emotional maturity is ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished; to endure unpleasantness, discomfort, and frustration; to give more than is asked for or required; to size things up and make independent decisions; to work under authority and to cooperate with others; to defer to time, other persons, and to circumstances.
Edward A. Strecker The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: maturity personal responsibility character self-control

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Margaret Thatcher Power Quotes
Categories: truth honesty integrity character morality

Those who pry into other people's affairs will hear what they do not like.
Libyan proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: nosy nosiness gossip character proverb

Our purses shall be proud, our graments poor:
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich.
William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: money materialism wisdom knowledge character

Self-command is the main elegance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: self-control self-esteem self-confidence character success

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please--you can never have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: truth honesty integrity growth character

Whatever you do, you need courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life action character courage fear

What you are comes to you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: character integrity honesty authenticity love

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: courage bravery risk character personality

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: character circumstances greatness strength courage

I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.
William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: gratitude faults character attitude thankfulness

Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: self-confidence self-esteem success trust character

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: pain suffering disability inspiration character

Love is not what we become but who we already are.
Stephen Levine The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love character personality soul spirituality

Anger is a short madness.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: anger character forgiveness resentment grudge

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: actions speak louder than words character

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
Joseph Joubert Power Quotes
Categories: flexibility flexible character self-confidence self-esteem

Today we speak about values and how it is important to "have them," as if they were beads on a string or marbles in a pouch. But these stories speak to morality and virtues not as something to be possessed, but as the central part of human nature, not as something to have but as something to be, the most important thing to be.
William J. Bennett, referring to the many traditional stories that illustrate the virtue of morality. The Book of Virtues
Categories: values principles morality ethics character

Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only.
James 1:22 Holy Bible
Categories: memory action wisdom knowledge character

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to live is wisdom.``       
William A. Ward Cokesbury catalog
Categories: memory action wisdom knowledge character

I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other's good.
William Shakespeare (As You Like It) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: work effort independence self-confidence character

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: courage justice character temperance actions

Go put your creed into your deed,
``Nor speak with double tongue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: actions speech honesty integrity character

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
Bishop Berkeley The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: truth honesty integrity character hypocrisy

People say they wish they had my patience. I tell them I wasn't born with it. I had to learn it, just like I had to learn to carve. Everybody has patience. Some of us just make better use of it than others.
Bruce Law, woodcarver "It's more than a virtue" by Sam Lowe, published in the November 10, 1998 Arizona Republic.
Categories: patience patient wait growth self-improvement character

...the formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.
William J. Bennett The Book of Virtues
Categories: character education knowledge ethics morality virtues

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue.
Johann Friedrich von Schiller The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: morals adversity character virtue prosperity materialism

Success is about who you are, not what you have. Successful people work to discover their talents, to develop those talents, and then to use those talents to benefit others as well as themselves.
Tom Morris  The philosopher Tom Morris  by Anna Muoio,
Categories: success character talent skills work effort

One of the many distinctions between the celebrity and the hero...is that one lives only for self while the other acts to redeem society.
Joseph Campbell, as quoted by Bill Moyers in the introduction. The Power of Myth
Categories: hero celebrity famous fame purpose character

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits: they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw Bits and Pieces magazine, Vol. R No. 40
Categories: thought words speech actions character habits

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one;
Take honour from me, and my life is done.
William Shakespeare (King Richard II) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: honor integrity character truth trust honesty

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
Phillip James Bailey Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: honesty integrity character to thine own self be true self-respect

I don't want to stand with the setting sun
And hate myself for the things I've done.
Edgar A. Guest Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: conscience character integrity morality ethics standards

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
Samuel Johnson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: wisdom curiosity learning creativity imagination character

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?
Henry David Thoreau Power Quotes
Categories: courage character integrity honesty strength leadership

That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express.
Francis Bacon The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: beauty appearances soul character peace happiness joy

Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation.
St. Francis of Assisi Body, Mind and Spirit: Daily Inspiration for Healing and Wholeness
Categories: patience humility humble anger impatience character

Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: difficulties problems challenges obstacles character growth

The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.
Grenville Kleiser The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: character visualization personality attitude vision goal

If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he ``has not seen.
1 John 4:20 Holy Bible
Categories: bias prejudice hate relationships character integrity

Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others.
Francis Bacon The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: honesty integrity character trust truth authenticity

A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when one degenerates, the other is contaminated.
Seneca The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability character integrity honesty personality talent

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.
Cicero The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: adversity difficulties challenges problems courage character

The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment... Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Martin Buber Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: truth actions character purpose fulfillment meaning

How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Robert Half The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: joke humor character flexibility reaction prank

Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character mature immaturity maturity responsibility blame

We have lost a sense of respect for serious, honest conduct. If we are moved merely by greed, and there's no longer any respect for decent or honest government, than we will suffer the results.
Barbara Tuchman A World of Ideas
Categories: honesty integrity character government public trust

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is,--"Let there be truth between us two forever more."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: friendship relationships trust honesty integrity character

The majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: character perseverance beginning planning priorities balance

Good enough never is.
Debbi Fields Bits & Pieces magazine
Categories: success achievement character perfectionism high standards

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
King Solomon Proverbs 4:18, Bible
Categories: character integrity justice honesty fairness leadership

Great thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: heart thought character love integrity success

Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: truth integrity honesty character fairness justice

...one must not give in to the doer of an impious action, no matter who he may be.
Euthyphro The Last Days of Socrates
Categories: morals morality piety sin right wrong character integrity

Why do you take by force that which you could obtain by love?
Powhatan A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: love strength character integrity kindness gentleness

We are apt to love praise, but not to deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: humility pride conceit vanity virtue character

All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought.
Joseph Joubert The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: maturity wisdom experience enthusiasm enthusiastic character

The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.
William Shakespeare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: hard choices personal responsibility integrity character

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
Sheldon Kopp Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: character self-knowledge self-acceptance courage change growth

A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.
William Shakespeare (King Henry VIII) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: serenity calm integrity character honesty virtue

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Rollo May Thoughts on Leadership: A Treasury of Quotations
Categories: courage strength virtue character integrity values

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: integrity actions words honesty character speech

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.
Horace The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: honesty integrity truth conscience authenticity character

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth...

Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits, which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers an fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts. By pursuing this process, a man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life. He also reveals, within himself, the laws of thought, and understands, with ever-increasing accuracy, how the thought-forces and mind-elements operate in shaping his character, circumstances, and destiny.
James Allen Words for All Occasions
Categories: thoughts mind education self-improvement growth character

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
Categories: work effort ability gift talent value character

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul. If the individual is not sensitive, how can his love be sentient? If he is not profound, how can his love be deep? As one is, so is his love.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell
Categories: love relationships soul character marriage divorce

...we are what we think.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: thoughts self-image self-concept self-esteem personality character

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: character authenticity hypocrisy truth honesty principles

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: learning education model example wisdom character growth

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Power Principle: Influence with Honor
Categories: character actions influence leadership potential responsibility

The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action truth life character honesty integrity

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: truth lie liar character honesty integrity society

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
Categories: life character integrity personality example mentor leadership

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle Words for All Occasions
Categories: habit character actions change personality identity

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: hope faith vision wisdom character attitude

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work selfishness sharing action love justice character

When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.
Horace The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: fault mistake habit character growth change compensation

Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors: competence (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity (your identity, your character, your attitude).
Peter Koestenbaum "Do you have the will to lead?" by Polly LaBarre, Fast Company, March 2000
Categories: leadership meditation authenticity character action results success

The way of a superior man is three-fold: Virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear.
Confucius The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: virtue character integrity honesty wisdom courage strength

As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Stephen Covey Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living the Seven Habits
Categories: values character identity self-awareness inner peace joy self-esteem self-confidence

A serene fortitude in the face of disappointment and chagrin should be our goal. If you have evaded all unhappiness in life your happiness is place in unstable equilibrium by the constant dread that some unavoidable disappointment is just around the corner. If you have faced pain and disappointment, you not only value your happiness more highly, but you are prepared for unpredictable exigencies. Just as we can immunize ourselves against certain bodily diseases by stimulating our reserves to overactivity
W. Beran Wolfe Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness adversity challenges growth character perspective pain

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: dreams vision goal values character success achievement

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
Ludwig Von Beethoven Making Choices : Discover the Joy in Living the Life You Want to Lead
Categories: character strength courage resolve adversity challenges problems

We live by admiration, hope and love.
William Wordsworth Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: love agape admiration hope friendship relationships character

Let us resolve: First to attain the grace
Harriet Beecher Stowe A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles
Categories: character gossip criticism praise appreciation meditation prayer

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do and bark.
Samuel Johnson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: pride coward courage laziness complain action character

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: kindness character self-acceptance judgementalism relationships friendships love

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character gossip self-esteem action speech responsibility integrity

One of these days is none of these days.
H.G. Bohn Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: procrastination time future present character habits planning

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan Words for All Occasions
Categories: wise talent ability character work effort action

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: character failure defeat compromise grace humility serve

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.
Malcolm Forbes The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: speech talking mouth words tongue discretion character

Let nothing good or bad upset the balance of your life.
Thomas à Kempis Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: balance focus stability maturity calm serenity character

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: popularity leadership character integrity friendship relationships business

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.
Charles Caleb Colton The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: adversity difficulties challenges problems character problem-solving

Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions--"If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same."
Joan McIntosh The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: acceptance attitude joy pain suffering happiness character choices

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
William Penn The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: gossip speech words self-control character integrity kindness

He most lives who thinks most, who feels the noblest, and who acts the best.
Philip James Bailey Light from Many Lamps
Categories: thought character imagination creativity motives actions deeds

Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
John B. Sheerin The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness joy attitude choice circumstances character sadness depression

Act honestly, and answer boldly.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: action risk safety daring character integrity truth

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honours, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honourable and excellent life, as Love awakens them.
Plato The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love character integrity principles values life guidance

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Words for All Occasions
Categories: character vision goal potential growth judgement perception

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
Joseph Joubert The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: quality character intergrity common sense intentions success

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able and yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
William Penn The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: common sense humbleness humility ability character integrity

Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection.
Rabbi Zelig Pliskin 9/16/98 Daily Lift mailing list
Categories: character integrity growth change self-improvement actions choices

Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Hubert Bonner Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: vision mission goal purpose integrity character individualism

The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They're not often fun or easy, but they're the ones we have to make, and each is a deliberate step toward better understanding who we really are.
Alexandra Stoddard Making Choices : Discover the Joy in Living the Life You Want to Lead
Categories: choices personal responsibility adversity challenges problems identity character

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: light integrity honesty character actions sharing helping volunteerism

Life is at best only a children's game. Yet the game must be played conscientiously.
Yukichi Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: life meaning purpose vision character work effort integrity

Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
King Solomon Proverbs 27:6, Holy Bible
Categories: friendships relationships truth character constructive criticism advice advise

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.
J. Sidlow Baxter Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude character vision problems obstacles challenges difficulties opportunities

As we become full persons, our knack for "right actions" and good judgement blossoms.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: fulfillment balance life actions judgement character growth vision

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: expectations attitude success dream goal vision mission character

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: honor work wellness soul purpose meaning life character

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character faults ignorance stupidity vanity pride arrogance mistakes

There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections), nothing that satisfies quiet reflection, except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and to get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.
Thomas H. Huxley The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: truth value self-knowledge self-awareness work effort honesty integrity character

The greatest gains and values are the farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: values priorities character morality integrity truth honesty reality

To be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: simplicity humility success greatness character authenticity honesty integrity

It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. A Mind Like His: Developing the Character of Christ
Categories: truth integrity honesty character virtue ethics morals morality

Reality - Dreams = Animal Being
Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism)
Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism)
Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism
Dreams + Humor = Fantasy
Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom
Lin Yutang The Importance of Living
Categories: idealism realism humor humility character vision perspective wisdom

People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people--people of character and moral literacy--can be conservative, and good people can be liberal. We must not permit our disputes over thorny political questions to obscure the obligation we have to offer instruction to all our young people in the area in which we have, as a society, reached a consensus: namely, on the importance of good character, and on some of its pervasive particulars.
William J. Bennett The Book of Virtues
Categories: character believes belief tolerance tolerate morality education virtue

Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Mingjiao, Tanquin Annals Zen Lessons
Categories: character integrity honor spirituality virtue honesty wisdom knowledge

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Alexander Hamilton The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: problems challenges adversity illness disability attitude growth character

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has...
What a man is in himself, what accompanies him when he is alone, what no one can give him or take away, is obviously more essential to him than everything he has in the way of possessions, or even what he may be in the eyes of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer Light from Many Lamps
Categories: self-determination self-worth happiness joy meaning fulfillment character possessions materialism

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: truth honesty integrity relationship friendship love character authenticity

Prosperity doth best discover vice but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Francis Bacon The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: virtue challenge growth change temptation adversity character integrity

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows like a song. But the man worthwhile is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: cheerfulness attitude character strength adversity challenges difficulties problems

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
A.J. Balfour The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: enthusiasm honesty integrity character truth trust business salesmanship lie

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
Oliver Goldsmith The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character growth adversity problems difficulties challenges ministry service

The highest good is like water.
Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.
It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao.
In dwelling, be close to the land.
In meditation, go deep in the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.
In speech, be true.
In ruling, be just.
In business, be competent.
In action, watch the timing.
No fight: No blame.

Lao Tse Amen: A Gathering of Forty Prayers and Blessings from Around the World
Categories: peace flow spirituality acceptance character integrity meditation growth

To gain confidence, we need to have a true picture of who we are and where we belong.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: self-confidence self-esteem self-image character growth self-awareness knowledge wisdom

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know.
Charles Kingsley Light from Many Lamps
Categories: work character moderation self-control willpower responsibility joy happiness virtue

These words are mine and they are true.
Chief Meninock A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: speech words talking honesty character integrity trust truthfulness

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Seneca The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: prosperity adversity strength character difficulty challenges obstacles growth

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Tyron Edwards The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness work effort ministry service character actions duty

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
Phyllis Bottome Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: problems difficulty challenges obstacles character strength courage bravery adversity

Sweet are the uses of adversity;
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head...
William Shakespeare (As You Like It) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: pain suffering adversity challenges obstacles difficulties character growth problems

Don't make excuses, make good.
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: responsibility responsible blame excuses make it right integrity character honesty blaming

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
Charles de Gaulle Words for All Occasions
Categories: adversity problems difficulties challenges obstacles character opportunity growth maturity

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is an honest man.
Henry Fielding The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character adversity difficulties challenges problems growth strength honesty truthfulness

In life as in the dance: Grace glides on blistered feet.
Alice Abrams Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: life character strength courage bravery wounds pain suffering grace

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;

German proverb Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: materialism money wealth possessions health wellness character integrity reputation

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
Lyndon B. Johnson Power Quotes
Categories: character integrity honesty personal responsibility choices problems mistakes errors

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Charles de Montesquieu The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happy joy kindness sharing relationships love loving friendship volunteerism character

Use what language you will, you can never say anything to others but what you are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Words for All Occasions
Categories: profanity swearing vulgar language speech tongue words thoughts character

There was never a time when so much official effort was being expended to produce happiness, and probably never a time when so little attention was paid by the individual to creating the personal qualities that make for it. What one misses most today is the evidence of widespread personal determination to develop a character that will in itself, given any reasonable odds, make for happiness. Our whole emphasis is on the reform of living conditions, of increased wages, of controls on the economic structure--the government approach--and so little on man improving himself.
William Ogden, 1945 Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness joy meaning fulfillment character self-determination self-improvement attitude growth change

You are the product of your own brainstorm.
Rosemary Konner Steinbaum Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: ideas character creativity personality vision mission goals dreams direction

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
King Solomon Proverbs 22:6
Categories: childrearing parenting children family families character training values morals

Oh Infinite Star Giver
I now ask for wisdom and courage
to follow these stars
for their names are many
and my heart is fearful...

They shine on me wherever I go:
The Star of Hope
The Star of Mercy and Compassion
The Star of Justice and Peace
The Star of Tenderness and Love
The Star of Suffering
The Star of Joy
And every time I feel the shine

I am called
to follow it
to sing it
to live it.
Macrina Wiederkehr A Grateful Heart
Categories: wisdom courage bravery meaning fulfillment purpose joy hope character happiness living

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happy fulfillment circumstances meaning purpose wellness work character honesty integrity

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.
M. Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled
Categories: life problems obstacles challenges difficulties discipline will action character growth change

The anger of the prudent never shows.
Burmese proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: anger angry patient wise relationships patience friendships business character self-control

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: responsibility choice attitude problems challenges difficulties circumstances character life pain

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: character virtue wisdom knowledge growth integrity origin choice life responsibility

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Margaret Thatcher The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: challenges problems obstacles difficulties difficulty determination perservere character courage bravery

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it that doth the hurt.
Francis Bacon The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: character integrity honesty motive self-delusion self-awareness self-acceptance lie truth reality trust

A woman is like a teabag--only in hot water do you realise how strong she is.
Nancy Reagan The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: strength courage bravery female circumstances obstacles trouble difficulties problems character

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character community society freedom justice science law honor morality behavior manners

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
Categories: conscience integrity character honor sincerity truth actions failure mistakes defeat

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.
Juvenal The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: adversity challenges problems difficulties grief acceptance strength courage character fortitude

Adversity is the foundation of virtue
Japanese proverb. The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: adversity character virtue growth proverb saying difficulties problems obstacles challenges change

The young man of native ability, (with) the will to work and good personality will, in the long run, get the equivalent of a college education in the tasks he will set for himself. If he has ability and determination, he will find ways to learn and to get ahead.
Edward G. Seubert The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability determination work personality character education goal self-improvement learning experience success

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
William J. Bennett The Book of Virtues
Categories: moral leadership mentor example model children family teacher education character integrity virtue

The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: effectiveness relationship growth change paradigms character motives victory promises personality self-improvement

Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: joy life work privilege gratitude opportunity giving serving sharing character destiny spirit

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
Dwight Morrow The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: responsibility action work effort integrity character honesty success achievement mission goals

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.
Blaine Lee The Power Principle: Influence with Honor
Categories: self-improvement change growth learning character guidance potential excellence mentoring coaching planning

Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: no failure refusal defeat success mistakes character honesty sincerity virtue courage bravery

Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: change growth criticism learning wisdom bad habits imperfections sins character self-improvement self-awareness self-knowledge

As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character patience punctuality time sincerity integrity honesty solicitude caring giving attitude perception

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: virtue usefulness talents serving sharing volunteerism relationships love character service giving back

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
David Starr Jordan The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: excellence leadership morality ethics true north principles character integrity honesty loyalty truthfulness

Moorings and anchors come in handy in life; moral anchors and moorings have never been more necessary.
William J. Bennett The Book of Virtues
Categories: morals morality ethics moral code integrity character society virtue principles education foundation

What factors are at play, for example, when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well? I would argue that the difference quite often lies in the abilities called here emotional intelligence, which include self-control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself.
Daniel P. Goleman Emotional Intelligence
Categories: success determination character personality self-control motivation self-starters wisdom knowledge work effort failure

We can learn to raise our sights a bit. For as Abigail Adams warned, if we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it. Human beings can adjust to anything. (I call this getting used to decadence.)
William Bennett Our Sacred Honor
Categories: character integrity honor ethics morality morals principles values virtues society vice sin apathy

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: mistakes responsibility responsible mature maturity character integrity honesty excuses blame blaming wisdom

When all kinds of trials and temptations crowd into your lives, my brothers, don't resent them as intruders, but welcome them as friends. Realize that they come to test your faith and to produce in you the quality of endurance. But let the process go on until that endurance is fully developed, and you will find you have become men of mature character, men of integrity with no weak spots.
James 1:2-4 Holy Bible
Categories: problems temptations difficulties obstacles challenges learning wisdom faith endurance character maturity integrity weakness

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: character trials problems challenges difficulties suffering strength bravery vision ambition inspiration success achievement

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T.S. Eliot The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: meaning purpose joy happy happiness words courage bravery art nature spirituality character integrity honesty truth

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: grudge resentment hate integrity character forgive forgiving apology mistakes errors hurt pain regret power

All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: leadership excellence focus priorities balance peace purpose mission vision goal character meaning fulfillment service

...true happiness stems from a quality within ourselves, from a way of thinking of life. Of all the millions of words written on happiness, this is the oldest and most enduring truth. If the principles of contentment are not within us, no material success, no pleasures or possessions, can make us happy.
Lillian Eichler Watson Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness attitude depression contentment materialism sadness success joy happy focus money possessions indulgence balance character

To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done--this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
Thomas Dekker Light from Many Lamps
Categories: smile happiness opportunity present vision work job purpose love laughter character gentleness kindness courtesy manners sleep joy time

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy...to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never; in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.
William Henry Channing Light from Many Lamps
Categories: possessions materialism moderation self-worth character thoughtfulness kindness honesty meditation self-improvement growth patience change maturation mature spirituality

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience. Religion may not be essential to it, but no one is known to have gained it without a philosophy resting on ethical principles. Selfishness is its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, seldom found for long in crowds, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It cannot be bought; indeed money has very little to do with it.
William Ogden Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness joy character honesty integrity religion philosohpy self-centered vain service ministry giving sharing meditation possessions money materialism

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil--the silent, unconcious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
William George Jordan The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: integrity character power choices responsibility leadership authenticity actions integrity

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts--once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness--simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience.
George Sand The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: work simplicity courage bravery happiness self-control work vocation character

Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.
Max Beerbohm The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: sense of humor humor humility pride vanity conceit perspective character proportion

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my friend, these I reckon will give you a good life.
Abraham Lincoln The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: worry fear anxiety wellness diet food health prayer meditation spirituality courtesy responsibility pace happiness joy simplicity authenticity character

I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be the fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts, and fill it with zeal and courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly, I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness.
Edward Young The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: lifestyle responsibility choice materialism possessions greed values integrity character truth gratitude attitude self-nurture happy joy fulfillment meaning purpose

There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.
Honore de Balzac Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: success achievement discipline talent ability will skill potential work effort action ministry service self-control practice character persistence persevere

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: truth values honesty honesty integrity character lies falsehood words speech talk eternal unchanging

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: virtue courage boldness strength character fear integrity bold daring risk integrity honesty good

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: spirit thought independence self-determination peer pressure responsibility choice judgemental criticism self-expression courage of your convictions strength bravery beliefs integrity character

The authentic self is the soul made visible.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: authenticity truth honesty integrity character personality self-esteem self-awareness self-discovery self-confidence joy happiness gifts talents skills ability soul spirituality love

He got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for.
Miguel de Cervantes Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: self-control moderation character impulse control

1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will never be dear to you.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
6. Never repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. Don't let the evils which have never happened cost you pain.
9. Always take things by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson Bible Illustrator (software from Parsons Technology)
Categories: procrastination character integrity laziness moderation fiscal responsibility budget debt quality worry anxiety stress anger mad fight speech words relationships friendships simplicity authenticity

Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Thomas J. Watson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: inner strength of character overcome overcoming reserves work effort achievement success challenges obstacles problems difficulty difficulties leaders leadership lead by example goals planning vision mission

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork--reading, writing, thinking--can.
Helen Gurley Brown Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: beauty appearances character books philosophy looks vanity growth self-improvement learning education books journaling study intellect mind thought wisdom knowledge

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear on cheerfully, do all bravely, awaiting occasions, worry never; in a word to, like the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.
William Ellery Channing The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: necessities moderation authenticity character integrity work effort thought demeanor kindness honesty actions nature appreciation learning growth wisdom courage bravery stress anxiety self-improvement

There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.
Jan Ashford Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: integrity character choice responsibility blame action words vision desire change goals effort attitude success accomplishment self-confidence self-esteem growth excuses rationalization potential decisions

There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
William B. Given, Jr. The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work job vocation ability skill talent character loyalty sincerity integrity honesty enthusiasm business team leadership teamwork diligent effort actions attitude optimism cooperation relationships enthusiastic morale career success