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Fri 4 Oct, 2002 07:03 pm
'When you
choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'
~ W. Somerset
Maugham
'The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to
do.'
~ John Holt
'Character is doing
the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by,
and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.'
~ J. C. Watts
'Don't belittle
yourself, other people do it better.'
~ Jackie Cook
'I don't care what
other people think of me because I judge myself on harsher and more strict terms than they ever could.'
~ Richey
James
'A man's ethical
behavior should be based effectively on sympathy, education and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would
indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.'
~ Albert
Einstein
'Everyone is guilty
of the good deed they didn't do.'
~ Voltaire
'The soul that is within me no man can
degrade.'
~ Frederick Douglas
'Promote yourself, but do not demote another.'
~ Israel Salanter
'Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.'
~ Publilius Syrus
'The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.'
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
'A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.'
~ Henry David Thoreau
'Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled uner all circumstances.'
~ Thomas Jefferson
'You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.'
Plato
'A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.'
~ William James
'Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value.'
~ Albert Einstein
'Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.'
~ Thomas H. Huxley
'Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Visible goodwill is the strongest negotiation strategy. Don't let somebody else determine your behavior.'
~ Dr. S. U. Sunrei
'Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.'
~ Homer
'I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.'
~ Henry David Thoreau
'We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.'
~ Aristotle
'Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up.'
~ Jesse Jackson
'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.'
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
'One can survive anything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.'
~ Oscar Wilde
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