Browsing Quotes With Tag: character (187)
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Speaker: Herm AlbrightPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water; they are good servants but bad masters.
Speaker: AesopPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reading is not a substitute for experience; neither is experience a substitute for reading.
Speaker: Aldous HuxleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man who never makes mistakes loses a great many chances to learn something.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Speaker: SocratesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True bravery is shown by performing with no witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
Speaker: Francois de la RouchefoucaldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
That two men may be real friends, they must have opposite opinions, similar principles, and different loves and hatreds.
Speaker: Francois Rene de ChateaubriandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depths of his failure by his self-abandonment. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
Speaker: Leonardo da VinciPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Remember – no matter what field you are in, a person can never be greater as a leader than he is as an individual.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Speaker: Francis of AssisiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say ‘I was wrong.’
Speaker: Sydney J. HarrisPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Six of the greatest words on earth: Control thyself – Cicero Know thyself – Socrates [Oracle of Delphi, really] Give thyself – Christ”
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The only tyrant I accept is the ‘still small voice’ within.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life is the acceptance of responsibilities, or their evasion. It is the business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.
Speaker: Ben Amos WilliamsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People pay very little attention to what you say about your religion. they’re too busy watching what you do about it.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
Speaker: Wilson MiznerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to lies within us.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nice guys only appear to finish last – actually they are running a different race.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!