“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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