“One thing I ve learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don t like anyone telling me how I m supposed to feel or think or what I m supposed to say.”
“Encourage literally came from in courage. The courage is put into you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.”
“Life is a test. It was designed to be so. It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass through both darkness and light. It is a time to make choices. And through this process we form our characters—some grand and glorious, some barely decent, and others just plain monstrous. ”
“(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen. -David Levithan (Every Day)”
“God s plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God s method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. ”
“Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.”
“No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.”
“There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses, --only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.”
“Great men are strong men with great leadership qualities. They inspire others to be loving and caring like themselves. By this their character is made stronger.”
“To obtain greatness and strength, a man must have a good character. He is honorable and respected by others. We define him as intelligent, and as one who God has blessed with wisdom”
“The character of good men and women encourage others to want to be better people.”
“He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.”
“I d love to be what I have been.”
“To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn t do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself.”
“It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.”
“In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character.”
“A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.”