Monday, June 12, 2006

Quotes On Character

"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." [Martin Luther King, Jr]

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. [Helen Keller]

"I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." [George Washington]

"Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us." [Thomas Paine]

Life is a series of experience, each of which makes us bigger even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward. [Henry Ford]

"Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it." [unknown]

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