“Character
may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”
Phillips Brooks
“You
can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by the way he eats jelly
beans.”
Ronald Reagan
“Nothing
gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool
and unruffled under all circumstances.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Character
is much easier kept than recovered.”
Thomas Paine
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s
character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Confidence
is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”
Vince Lombardi
“The
really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.”
G.K. Chesterton
“Character
consists of what you do on the third and forth tries.”
James A. Michener
“
The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that
a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary person takes
everything as a blessing or a curse.”
Carlos Castoneda
“The
price of greatness is responsibility.”
Winston Churchill
“What
counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it’s
the size of the fight in the dog.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Only
those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Elliot
“Perseverance
is not a long race. It is many short races one after another.”
Walter Elliott
“Every
man I meet is in some way my superior.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Patience
and fortitude conquer all things.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Necessity
is the mother of taking chances.”
Mark Twain
“Keeping
score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping always make
you less than you are.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
“Contrary
to the cliché, genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near
it.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
“Don’t
be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small
jumps.”
David Lloyd George
“Generosity
is taking more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
Kahlil Gibran
“One
does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore
for a very long time.”
André Gide
“Whatever
you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and
magic in it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Integrity
is when what you say, what you do, what you think and who you are all
come from the same place.”
Madelyn Griffith-Haynie
“Nothing
is more common than unfulfilled potential.”
Howard Hendricks
“Experience
is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.”
Aldous Huxley
“Be
more concerned with your character than you reputation. Your character
is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think
you are.”
John Wooden
“You
can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness
to get caught up in either one.”
John Wooden
“The
secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated,
discipline will take care of itself.”
Sir Alexander Paterson
“If
a man does his best, what else is there?”
General George S. Patton
“No
one can you make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You
cannot escape the responsibility tomorrow by evading it today.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The
cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Ellen Parr
If
it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.”
Dennis Roch
“It
is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because
we do not dare that they are difficult.”
Seneca
“Love
all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.”
William Shakespeare
“Liberty
means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The
remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude
we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past…We cannot
change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change
the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we
have, and that is our attitude.”
Charles Swindoll
“Few
things are harder to put up with than a good example.”
Mark Twain
“The
pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.”
George Will
“Many
a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the
street.”
Elbert Hubbard
“The
only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
Oscar Wilde
“Whatever
is begun in anger ends in shame.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I
criticize by creation – not by finding fault.”
Cicero
“The
weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“To
avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
Elbert Green Hubbard
“The
superior man is modest in is speech, but excels in his actions.”
Confucius
“We
judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us
by what we have already done.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Great
is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“There
is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.”
General Douglas MacArthur
“It’s
better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.”
James Thurber
“The
average person thinks he isn’t.”
Father Larry Lorenzoni
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