Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life (20 page)

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."

Plato

"Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated."

Lou Holtz

"A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child."

The Knights of Pythagoras

"If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow."

Chinese Proverb

"Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended."

Old Folk Saying

"Where there is no shame, there is no honor."

African Proverb

"Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted."

Alfred Adler

“What you do off the job is determining factor
In
how far you will go on the job.”
Zig
Ziglar

"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."

Aesop

"If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free."

Winthrop
Williams Aldrich

"Don't accept that others know you better than yourself? Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."

James Allen

"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

James Allen

"The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment is your choice made. Thus you learn to take the path to the right. Thus you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character."

H. Van Anderson

"The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment is your choice made. Thus you learn to take the path to the right. Thus you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character."

H. Van Anderson

"A person shows what he is by what he does with what he has."

Anonymous

“Keep your thinking right
And
your business will be right.”
Zig
Ziglar

"At a distance from home a man is judged by what he means."

Anonymous

"Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone."

Anonymous

"Character is a victory, not a gift."

Anonymous

"Character, like a kettle, once mended, always requires repairs."

Anonymous

"I am building a character that shall never know completion.
May I, as the days come and go, ever draw nearer to God through service to His children."

Anonymous

“Ability can take you the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Zig Ziglar

 
“Am I shaping my deeds to a well made plan? Patiently doing the things I can?
Or, am I a wrecker, who walks the town
Content with the labor of tearing down?"
Anonymous

"Reputation is the shell a man discards when he leaves life for immortality. His character he takes with him."

Anonymous

"Reputation is what the world thinks a man is; character is what he really is."

Anonymous

"Though a man without money is poor, a man with nothing but money is still poorer. Worldly gifts cannot bear up the spirits from fainting and sinking when trials and troubles come, any more than headache can be cured by a golden crown or toothache by a chain of pearls."

Anonymous

"When I do right, no one remembers. When I do wrong, no one ever forgets."

Anonymous

"When small men begin to cast long shadows, it is a sure sign that the sun is setting."

Anonymous

"You can tell what a man is by what he does when he hasn’t anything to do."

Anonymous

"You can't measure the heart of a champion."

Anonymous

“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to his or her commitment to excellence, regardless of his or chosen field of endeavor.”
Zig Ziglar

"You don’t have to tell how you live each day,
You don’t have to say if you work or you play,
Attired, true barometer serves in the place,
However you life, it will show in your face.
The false, the deceit that you bear in your heart
Will not stay inside where it first got a start;
For sinew and blood are a thin veil of lace,
What you wear in your heart, you wear in your face.

If your life is unselfish, if for others you live,
For not what you get, but how much you can give;
If you live close to God in his infinite grace,

You don’t have to tell it, it shows in your face."

Anonymous

"If you are not leaning, no one will let you down."

Dr. Robert Anthony

"Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy soul for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these that where a man can live, there if he will, he can also live well."

Marcus Antonius

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

Aristotle

"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."

Aristotle

"Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won."

Maltbie
Davenport
Babcock,

"A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded."

Roger Ward Babson

"Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness."

Faith
Baldwin

"As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smoothes a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character, too."

H. W. Bartol

"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Thought creates character."

Annie Bessant

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
Phillips Brooks

"Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty. "

Phillips Brooks

"Sad is the day for any man when he becomes absolutely satisfied with the life he is living, the thoughts that he is thinking and the deeds that he is doing; when there ceases to be forever beating at the doors of his soul a desire to do something larger which he seeks and knows he was meant and intended to do."
Phillips Brooks

"Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process."
Phillips Brooks

“You build a successful carreer, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.”
Zig
Ziglar

"Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our
character.
”
Hugh B. Brown

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."

Jackson Browne

"It is an old saying, and one of fearful and fathomless import, that we are forming characters for eternity. Forming characters - Whose? Our own or others? Both and in that momentous act lies the peril and responsibility of our existence."

Elihu Burritt

"A man’s got to know his limitations."

Harry Callahan

"All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted."

Andrew Carnegie

"The higher up you go, the
more gentle
you have to reach down to help other people succeed."
Rick Castro

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
Cato the Elder

"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do."

William Ellery Channing

"Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word."
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield

"He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence."

Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Cheserfield

“When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.”
Zig Ziglar

"The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom."
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield

"The real long term objective of the Welfare Plan is the fulfilling of character in the members of the Church, givers and receivers, rescuing all that is finest down deep inside of them, and bringing to flower and fruitage the latent richness of the Spirit, which, after all, is the mission and purpose and reason for being of this Church.”
J. Reuben Clark Jr.

"A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people."
Henry Clay

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."

Henry Clary

"Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are."

Frederick L. Collins

"It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall b e rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account."

Confucius

"We do not need more national development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen."
John Calvin Coolidge

"Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us man hood or womanhood fiber."

Dr. Frank Crane

"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better."

John Dewey

"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains."

Helen Douglas

"To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies."
Sir Arthur Anthony Eddington

"The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us."