![]() ![]() "The measure of achievement is not winning awards. ![]() "Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us." - John N. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength." - Author Unknown "Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough." - Oprah Winfrey "Be thankful for what you have you'll end up having more. Grudge giving says, 'I hate to' duty giving says, 'I ought to' thanks giving says, 'I want to.'" - Robert Rodenmayer "There are three kinds of giving: grudge giving, duty giving, and thanks giving. "So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied." - Helen Keller "Do not desire to be other than you are, but desire to be very well what you are." - St. "Learning is like rowing upstream not to advance is to drop back." - Chinese Proverb Plant a character reap a destiny." - An Old Adage We cannot earn these virtues God has already freely planted them in our soul." - Bishop Robert F. Traditionally called theological virtues, they come as free gifts from God and draw us to God. "In the garden of the soul, the virtues of faith, hope, and love form the centerpiece. Just my family and friends, and I shall be satisfied.' Now that I am an old man and my days are numbered, my one prayer is 'Lord, give me the grace to change myself.' If I had prayed this right from the start, I would not have wasted my life." - Bayazid "I was a revolutionary when I was young and all my prayer to God was, 'Lord, give me the energy to change the world.' As I approached middle age and realized that half my life was gone without my changing a single soul, I changed my prayer to 'Lord, give me the grace to change all those who come in contact with me. "The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves." - Rachel Carson "If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral." - Samuel P. "Great necessities call out great virtues." - Abigail Adams "Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not." - Oprah Winfrey "Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard." - Colin Powell "A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." - Nelson Mandela "Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." - Henry Ford ![]() "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Goodness is the only investment that never fails." - Henry David Thoreau More Character Quotes: "Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them." - Aristotle "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." - Mark Twain "To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice." - Confucius "In matters of principle, stand like a rock in matters of taste, swim with the current." - Thomas Jefferson He told me to try to be in the first group there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. "Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." - Michel de Montaigne "I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right, and that is good." - Martin Luther King "You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you." - Rwandan Proverb "The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour." - Japanese Proverb ![]()
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