"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my
religion." Abraham Lincoln
"A man's character is his fate." Heraclitus
"A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one."
Lord Jeffrey
"How we talk to each other reflects the quality of our relationship as
well as the depth of our character." Dan B. Allender and Tremper
Longman
"Kindness is contagious. The spirit of harmony trickles down by a
thousand secret channels into the inmost recesses of the household
life." Henry Van Dyke
"The more emotionally mature we are, the fewer demands we make upon
others, and the more capable we are of being concerned about others and
their needs." Cecil Osborne
"To laugh often and much: To win the respect of intelligent people and
the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find
the best in others, to leave the world a bit better whether by a
healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know
even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have
succeeded." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when
they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act,
they grow into a habit." John Tillotson
"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own
life - is the source from which self-respect springs." Joan Didion
"Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is
`timing'; it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles
and in the right way." Fulton J. Sheen
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by
the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as
by the way your mind looks at what happens." John H. Miller
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." Alex Hamilton
"The more emotionally mature we are, the fewer demands we make upon
others, and the more capable we are of being concerned about others and
their needs." Cecil Osborne
"The best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness and love." William Wordsworth
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the
inward
thing we are. To be good is the great thing. Edwin H. Chapin
"Concience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to
yourself, reputation to your neighbor." St. Augustine
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the
better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a
friend who has prospered."
Aeschylus
BC 525-456
Greek Dramatist
"It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the
worth of a man, but what he is."
Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881
Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic
"Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from
within."
- Steven H. Coogler
"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words;
they
become
your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your
habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will
become
your destiny."
- -- Source Unknown
"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the
dickens underneath."
- Michael Caine
"Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on
by it
with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from
it."
Akhenaton
BC -~1375
Egyptian King, Monotheist
"Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible
swiftness."
Faith Baldwin
"Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune;
but
let us say, every man is the architect of his own character."
George D. Boardman
All common things -- each day's events,
That with the hour begin and end;
Our pleasures and our discontents,
Are rounds by which we may ascend.
---Henry Wadsworth Longfellow