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Character
What lies behind us and what
lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Resolved: never to do anything
which I should be afraid to do
if it were the last hour of my life.
?Jonathan Edwards
A truly strong person does not need
the approval of others any more than
a lion needs the approval of sheep.
?Vernon Howard
You can measure a man by the opposition
it takes to discourage him.
?Robert C. Savage
If you don't stand for something,
you will fall for anything.
?Anonymous
Don't compromise yourself,
you're all you've got.
?Janis Joplin
Only the mediocre are always at their best!
?Johnathan Winters
Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia.
(That shameful Siren, sloth,
is ever to be avoided.)
?Horace
There are four types of people:
Smart and lazy,
Smart and full of energy,
Stupid and lazy,
Stupid and full of energy
?Leif Summerfield
Inner liberty can be judged by
how often a person feels offended,
for you can no more insult a mature
man that you can paint the air.
?Vernon Howard
Character is like a tree and
reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the real thing.
?Abraham Lincoln
Trials, temptations, disappointments --
all these help instead of hinder,
if one uses them rightly. They not
only test the fiber of a character,
but strengthen it. Every conquered
temptation represents a new
fund of moral energy. Every trial endured
and weathered in the right spirit
makes a soul nobler and
stronger than it was before.
?James Buckham
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble
mind is the soil out of which
thanks naturally grow. A proud
man is seldom a grateful man,
for he never thinks he gets
as much as he deserves.
?Henry Ward Beecher
