Character

“When the power of love is greater than the love of power, the world will know true peace.”  Jimi Hendrix

“A man is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.”  Unknown

“You can’t run away from trouble.  There ain’t no place that far.”  Uncle Remus

“Truth fears no questions.”  Unknown

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”  Albert Einstein

“It isn’t hard to make a mountain out of a mole hill.  Just add a little dirt.”  Unknown

“The key to joy is unconditional kindness to all life… including your own!”  Unknown

‘Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.”  William Shakespeare

“You can make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you blame others for those mistakes.”  John Wooden

“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snap back.”  Bill Copeland

“The best way to get the last word is to apologize.”  Unknown

“You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.”  Publilius Syrus

“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.”  George Washington

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?” Eleanor Roosevelt

“When life gives you lemons, please, just don’t squirt them in other people’s eyes.”  J. Andrew Helt

“Good actions give strength to our selves and inspire good actions in others.”  Plato

” God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.”  Reggie White

“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”  Gandhi

“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.”  Mark Twain

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched … but are felt in the heart.”  Helen Keller

“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”  Buddha

“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”  Benjamin Disraeli

“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.”  Henry Ward Beecher

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”  Freya Stark

“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.”  Winston Churchill

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”  John Quincy Adams

“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”  Phillips Brooks

“It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.”  W.C. Fields

“The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation.” Cheryl Hughes

“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.”  Oscar Wilde

“Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.”  L. Ron Hubbard

“What a pity human beings can’t exchange problems.  Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow’s.”  Olin Miller

“The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.”  E. E. Cummings

“When in doubt, tell the truth.”
  Mark Twain

“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”  Alexander Hamilton

“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”  William Arthur Ward

“None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.”  Benjamin Whichcot

“People don’t ever seem to relate that doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune.”  William McFee

“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.”  John E. Southard

“The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.”  Henrik Ibsen

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
  Lao Tzu

“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”
  Phillips Brooks

“As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.”  Marian Anderson

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” Marcus Aurelius

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”  Helen Keller

“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”  Unknown

“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People don’t ever seem to relate that doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune.”  William McFee

“If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.”  Nelson DeMille

“It is curious – curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and more courage so rare.”  Mark Twain

“The power of the mind is your power.  Use it.  Don’t let it use you.”  Terri Guillemets

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”  Confucius

“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”  Confucius

“Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.”  Bob Marley

“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.”  Hellen Keller

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”  Thomas Jefferson

“Character is a victory, not a Gift.”  Unknown

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” Oprah Winfrey

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”  Aristotle

“Who has deceived thee so oft is thy self.”  Benjamin Franklin

“Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.”  Benjamin Franklin

“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.”  Elbert Hubbard

“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing it the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”  Johann von Goethe

“Self-respect is a product of doing difficult things, and doing them well.”  George Bernard Shaw

“Big people monopolize the listening, small people monopolize the talking.”  David Schwartz

“Every many stamps his value on himself… man is made great or small by his own will.”  J.C.F. von Schiller

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”  Waldo Emerson

“Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.”  Charles de Gaulle

“There is no greater man than the one that has filled his own shoes completely.”  Unknown philosopher

“Who you would seem to be, be really.”  Benjamin Franklin

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.” Abraham Lincoln

“An empty bag cannot stand upright.”  Benjamin Franklin

“Pursue truth and people will be true to you.”  Arthur Twining Hadley

“No man can climb beyond the limitations of his own character.”  John Morley

“The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.”  Unknown

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”  Gandhi

“One man cannot do right in one department of life while he is occupied doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.”  Gandhi

“Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.”  Elbert Hubbard

“Wisdom is learning all we can, but having the humility to realize that we don’t know it all.”  Unknown

“Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.”  Benjamin Franklin

“A lie stands on one leg, the truth on two.”  Benjamin Franklin

“Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop physical muscles through overcoming opposition, we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.”  Unknown

“Try not to become men of success, rather, become men of value.”  Albert Einstein

“Take a minute, look at yourself, look at your actions. See if your behavior matched your goals.”  Unknown

“Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.”  Benjamin Franklin

“What you want to be eventually, you must be every day. With practice, the quality of your deeds gets down to your soul.”  Frank Crane

“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.”  Booker T. Washington

“Don’t throw stones at your neighbor, if you own windows are glass.”  Benjamin Franklin

“Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.”  Colin Powell

“Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moments.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whatever you are, act well your part.”  Scottish Proverb

“Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.”  Mark Twain

“Keep away from people that try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too can become great.”  Mark Twain

“The most important thing we do is the legacy we leave behind.”  Unknown

“It is not what he has which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.”  Henry Frederic Amiel

“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which gives happiness.”  Thomas Jefferson

“A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.”  Benjamin Franklin

“What is the right thing to do? Nothing will be right if it is wrong. Nothing that is wrong will ever come out right.”  Unknown

“Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”  Albert Schweitzer

“He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.”  Benjamin Franklin

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”  John Wooden

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”  Martin Luther King Jr.

“In the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.”  Lyndon B. Johnson

“A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.”  William Barclay

“A good archer is not known by his arrows but his aim.”  Thomas Fuller

“A man’s reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man’s character.”  David McKay

“One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade.”  Chinese Proverb

“I make the most of all that comes, And the least of all that goes.”  Sara Teasdale

“I forgive myself and love who I am right now.”  Unknown

“When you choose the behavior, you choose the consequences.”  Dr. Phil

“Ask yourself: Am I spending my time doing what I would write into the script of my life?”  Dr. Phil

“Humility gives us the ability to deny ourselves, not think too highly of ourselves, and put others above ourselves. Humility is all about understanding that we are not leaders who serve, but rather we are servants who have been given the opportunity to lead…”  Pastor Stovall Weems

“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”  Unknown

“Man is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.”  Unknown

“Ability will enable a man to go to the top, but it takes character to keep him there.”  Unknown

“He who throws dirt loses ground.”  Unknown

“Don’t be afraid of pressure. Remember that pressure is what turns a lump of coal into a diamond.”  Unknown

“Humility gives us the ability to deny ourselves, not think too highly of ourselves, and put others above ourselves. Humility is all about understanding that we are not leaders who serve, but rather we are servants who have been given the opportunity to lead…”  Unknown

“Reputation is made in a moment: character is built in a lifetime.”  Unknown

“The fellow that does things that count doesn’t usually stop to count them.”  Unknown

“A critical spirit is like poison ivy, it only takes a little contact to spread its poison.”  Unknown

“Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself.”  Unknown

“The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.”  Unknown

“Many a good man has failed because he had his wishbone where is backbone should have been.”  Unknown

“People know what you are by what they see, not by what they hear.”  Unknown

“You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him.”  Unknown

“Two things are hard on the heart – running up stairs and running down people.”  Unknown