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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what
you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
John Wooden
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"Success builds character, failure reveals it."
Dave Checkett
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"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
James D. Miles
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"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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"The average woman would rather have beauty than brains because the average man can see
better than he can think."
Anonymous
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"Man can have but what he strives for."
Arabian Proverb
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"When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do."
Charles M. Schwab
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"There is no better measure of a person than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose."
Wilma Askinas
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"Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"The man who is prepared has his battle half fought."
Miguel De Cervantes
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"Only a person who has faith in himself can be faithful to others."
Erich Fromm
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"The difference between one man and another is not mere ability - it is energy."
Thomas Arnold
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"The smallest worm will turn being trodden on ..."
William Shakespeare
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"The worm will turn ..."
Ancient Proverb
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"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
Winston Churchill
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde
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"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Winston Churchill
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"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
William Faulkner
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"I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it."
Groucho Marx
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"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
John Bright
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"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
Paul Keating
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"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
Oscar Wilde
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"I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial."
Irvin S. Cobb
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"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
Samuel Johnson
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"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
Forrest Tucker
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"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein
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"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any one I know."
Abraham Lincoln
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"I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here."
Stephen Bishop
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"I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
Mark Twain
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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
Clarence Darrow
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"America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser."
George S. Patton
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"Those who do not read and understand history are doomed to repeat it."
Harry Truman
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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those we cannot resemble."
Samuel Johnson
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"Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a
poor workman"
John J. Bernet
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"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters."
Nathaniel Emmons
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"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."
Robert Benchley
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"Those who can command themselves command others."
William Hazlitt
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"Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts."
Dr. A. J. Carlson
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"Our bodies are where we stay; Our souls are what we are."
Cecil Baxter
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"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath
of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the
grass and loses itself in the sunset." [Last words 1890]
Crowfoot
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"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses."
Winston Churchill
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"The past, the present and the future are really one - they are today."
Stowe
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"It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood."
William Castle
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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."
George Bernard Shaw
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"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
Henry Ward Beecher
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"Discover what you want most of all in this world, and set yourself to work on it."
John Homer Miller
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"Happiness is someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
Chinese Proverb
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"It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same."
Sir Philip Gibbs
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"Get a pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself."
Phillips Brooks
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"To grow and know what one is growing towards -- that is the source of all strength and confidence in life."
James Baillie
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"It is pleasant to recall past troubles."
Cicero
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"An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife."
Franklin Pierce Adams
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"Whatever you have, you must either use or lose."
Henry Ford
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"No one remembers who came in second."
Walter Hagen
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"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
J. Andrews
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"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
Woody Allen
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"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft."
Theodore Roosevelt
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"Freedom without obligation is anarchy; freedom with obligation is democarcy."
Earl Riney
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"An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more
interested he is in her."
Agatha Christie
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"Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better."
Edgar W. Howe
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"The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes."
Henry A. Courtney
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"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back
again when it begins to rain."
Robert Frost
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"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
Benjamin Disraeli
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"All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."
Samuel Butler
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"Nothing comes from nothing."
Lucretius
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"If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace."
Lord John Russell
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"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end."
Lord Acton
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"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."
Benjamin Franklin [Poor Richard's Almanac]
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"Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based
on avoidance of error."
Robert Burchfield
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"History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the
resemblance until the damage is done."
Sydney J. Harris
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"I don't think you can spend yourself rich."
George Humphrey
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"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits."
Lee Iacocca
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"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary." [Common Sense]
Thomas Paine
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"When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting"
Saint Jerome
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"This is a beautiful country." [Remark as he rode to the gallows, seated on his coffin]
John Brown
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"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."
Daniel Webster
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"A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing."
Charles Dickens
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"More worship the rising than the setting sun."
Pompey [Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus]
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"I propose to consider the question, `Can machines think?`."
Alan Mathison Turing
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"In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes."
Andy Warhol
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"Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way."
Isaac Goldberg
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"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed
door that we do not see the ones which open for us."
Alexander Graham Bell
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"For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?"
Jesus Christ
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"Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back."
Alfred M. Sloan
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"Democracy is the worst form of government except all others."
Winston Churchill
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"Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind."
Malcolm Forbes
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"We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those
with whom we come in contact."
Charles M. Schwab
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"The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the
good is oft interred apathetically inside."
Brooks Atkinson
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"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."
Malcolm Forbes
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"Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now."
Ovid
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