"Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours."
-- Dr. Robert Anthony
"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity."
-- Arthur James Balfour
"Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at."
-- Carlos A. Urbizo
"We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs."
-- Francois Fenelon
"Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before."
-- James Buckham
"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
-- John Wooden
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."
-- Aristotle
"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."
-- Leo Buscaglia
"Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination."
-- Grace Lichtenstein
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
-- William Ellery Channing
"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm ... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others."
-- Audrey Hepburn
"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."
-- Orison Swett Marden
"Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger."
-- Lou Holtz
"Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside."
-- Brian Tracy
"Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem."
-- Eric Allenbaugh
"Con men may get away with lies, manipulators with stepping on anyone who get in their way, the bad may become rich, and a phony may receive the highest accolades. But every gesture we make, every word we utter, every step we take makes a footprint on our souls."
-- Michael Norwood
"The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
-- William Wordsworth
"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
-- Alexander Pope
"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions."
-- William F. Scolavino
"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not."
-- Henry Fielding
"The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden."
-- Phillips Brooks
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
-- Alexander Hamilton
"Character is doing right when no one is looking."
-- J.C. Watts
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting."
-- Bernard Meltzer
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals."
-- Dr. James Naismith
"I will speak ill of no one and speak all the good I know of everybody."
-- Andrew Jackson
"The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself."
-- Wang Yang-Ming
"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals."
-- Samuel Ullman
"Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art."
-- Seneca
"Be a fountain, not a drain."
-- Rex Hudler
"There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots."
-- George Eliot
"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."
-- Japanese Proverb
"It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on."
-- Real Live Preacher
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
-- Anais Nin
"People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt."
-- Mary Pettibone Poole
"What you are will show in what you do."
-- Thomas Edison
"Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time."
-- Sam Rayburn
"My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'"
-- Cary Grant
"Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved."
-- Michel de Montaigne
"If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source."
-- the Dhammapada
"Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open."
-- Elmer G. Letterman
"Principle can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true."
-- Edward R. Lyman
"Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to stay there."
-- William Blake
"Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory."
-- F.W. Faber
"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.
"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
-- Freya Stark
"Leadership is the potent combination of character and strategy. If you must be without one, be without strategy."
-- Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf
"You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
-- John Wooden
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