I have learned that every man lives, not through care of himself, but by love.
Leo Tolstoy
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
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he’s born.
William R. Inge
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
Bertrand Russell
If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us. Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty to choose the right.
Arthur Trudeau
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
. . . in the center of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergencies of belief, all differences of temperament, . . . speaks with the same voice.
C.W. Lewis
This secret spoke Life herself unto me: “Behold,” said she, “I am that which must ever surpass itself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
The virtues are not poured into us, they are natural to us. Seek them and you will find them; neglect them and you will lose them.
Mencius
It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
Emmet Fox
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.
Dag Hammarskjold
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas Paine
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell
A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world.
Mohammad
