Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character. — Albert Einstein
Character, not circumstance, makes the person.
— Booker T. Washington
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will
take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become
a selfish pig. — Woodrow Wilson
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
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops
– no, but the kind of man the country turns out. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically...
Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. — Martin Luther King Jr.
The best index to a person’s character
is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back. —
Abigail van Buren
Character is much
easier kept than recovered.
— Thomas
Paine
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his
daily work. — Beryl Markham
Nobody is bored when he is trying
to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true. — William Inge
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
You can’t escape the responsibility of tomorrow by
evading it today. — Abraham Lincoln
I am only one, but still, I am one.
I cannot do everything but I can do something. And, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do what I can. —
Edward Everett Hale
It is better to
light a candle than to curse the darkness. — Chinese proverb
We cannot do everything at once, but we
can do something at once. — Calvin
Coolidge
Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them. — Elvis Presley
Fall seven times. Stand up eight. — Japanese
proverb
The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it. — Alex Haley
What does not destroy makes me stronger.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Endurance is nobler
than strength and patience than beauty. — John Ruskin
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to
blame someone else. — Unknown
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
— Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.
This is the principle difference between a dog and a man. — Mark Twain (Samuel
Clemens)
If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it. — Terry Josephson
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein. — Proverbs
They who live have
all things; they who withhold have nothing. — Hindu proverb
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
— Marcus Aurelius
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —
Count Leo Tolstoy
To be nobody-but-yourself—in
a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any
human being can fight; and never stop fighting. — e e cummings
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. — Carl Jung
Self-image sets
the boundaries of individual accomplishment. — Maxwell Maltz
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into
a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
— Anton Chekhov
In spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart. — Anne Frank
True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good. — Confucius
Optimism is the father that leads to achievement. — Helen Keller
What is important
is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us. — Jean-Paul Sartre
The future belongs to those who believe
in their dreams. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Idealism increases in direct proportion to ones distance from the problem. — John Galsworthy
Those who believe they can do something
are probably right — and so are those who believe they cant. — Unknown
I have found that
if you love life, life will love you back. — Arthur Rubinstein
We either make ourselves happy or miserable.
The amount of work is the same. — Carlos
Castaneda
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your
needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience
enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you
to be useful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the
future. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. — James Freeman Clarke
Happiness depends
upon ourselves. — Aristotle
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. — Count Leo Tolstoy
With our thoughts we
make the world. — Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
If you want to work for world peace, go home and love your families. —
Mother Teresa
Train up a child
in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it. — Proverbs, 22:6
He who dares to
teach must never cease to learn. — Unknown
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than
you think. — Benjamin Disraeli
The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground. — Unknown
Life is not so
short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. —
Seneca
A kind word is like a spring day. — Russian proverb
No act of kindness,
no matter how small, is ever wasted. — Aesop
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. —
Frank A. Clark
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and
is immortal. — Albert Pike
One must care about a world one will never see. — Bertrand Russell
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end
of your own arm. — Swedish proverb
Lives of great people remind us we can make our lives sublime and, departing, leave
behind footprints in the sand of time. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. — Anne Frank
If your actions inspire
others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams
To lead people, walk beside them. — Lao-tsu
A leader leads
by example, whether he intends to or not. — Unknown
