Browsing Quotes With Tag: character (187)
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There is only one thing more contagious than enthusiasm, and that is the lack of enthusiasm.
Speaker: Thomas MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have generally found that a man who is good at an excuse is good at nothing else.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Speaker: George EliotPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who gossips to you will also gossip about you.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Take what you do seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously.
Speaker: Steven JohnstonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We are empowered by what is expected of us.
Speaker: Robert BurtonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Speaker: Hugh DownsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We can only teach what we are.
Speaker: Holger RakowPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you want to be offended, you will be. But, if you are offended, it’s because you want to be.
Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Refinement comes from doing what you don’t want to do, and doing it well.
Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile. One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to do is worth all of the good thoughts, warm feelings, and passionate prayers in which idle men indulge themselves.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The awakening of the conscience is the grandeur of the soul.
Speaker: Charles A. CallisPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Lies and gossip which harm reputations are scattered about by the four winds like the seeds of a ripe dandelion held aloft by a child. Neither the seeds nor the gossip can ever be gathered in. the degree and extent of the harm done by the gossip is inestimable.
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
…If you wish to go where God is, you must be like God, or possess the principles which God possesses, for if we are not drawing towards God in principle, we are going away from Him and drawing towards the devil.
Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Consider your origin; you were not formed to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Speaker: DantePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The weak cannot forgive.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
Speaker: Swedish proverbPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s easy, when in the world, to live by the opinion of the world. It’s easy, in solitude, to live by your own. But the truly great man is who, in the midst of a crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People of principle who don’t live with integrity are miserable.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!