"Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate."
~ William Arthur Ward ~


"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."
~ Confucius ~


"Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels."
~ G. H. Lewis ~


"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these."
~ Bob Goddard ~


"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
~ John Wooden ~


"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."
~ Raymond Hull ~


"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)


"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."
~ St. Francis De Sales ~


"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
~ Frank Outlaw ~


"A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."
~ Albert Schweitzer ~


"How a man plays the game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it."
~ Author Unknown ~


"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."
~ Golda Meir ~


"If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should not grow old."
~ James A. Garfield ~


"The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart."
~ Menicus ~


"Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece -- by thought, choice, courage and determination."
~ John Luther ~


"It is never too late to be what we might have been."
~ George Eliot ~


"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time."
~ Elbert Hubbard ~


"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~


"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
~ James A. Michener ~


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


"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross ~