Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything.
-Walt Whitman
Character is, in the long run, the decisive factor in the life of individuals and of nations alike.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
-Chilo
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
-Abraham Lincoln
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
-James D. Miles
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-Henry Ford
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.
-Robert Brault
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-David Star Jordan
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
-John Quincy Adams
Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
-Chinese Proverb
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
-German Proverb
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
-Aristotle
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
-Arthur C. Clarke
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
-Japanese Proverb
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. William Safire
The time is always right to do what is right.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart, this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
-James Allen
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
-Plato
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
-Confucius
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
-Will Durant
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
-Colin Powell
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
-John Dryden
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
-Orison Swett Marden
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
-Mark Twain
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
-Chinese Proverb
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
-Will Rogers
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what’s right.
-Isaac Asimov
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
-Oscar Wilde
Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
-George Dana Boardman
Take care that no one hates you justly.
-Publilius Syrus
Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
-Arthur Freed
Every time I’ve done something that doesn’t feel right, it’s ended up not being right.
-Mario Cuomo