Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2019-12-12 Dec 12, 2019I am only one. But still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.~ Edward Everett HaleOne does evil enough when one does nothing good.~ German ProverbYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.~ James D. Miles Dec 11, 2019A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.~ Dwight D. EisenhowerThere can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.~ George Jacob HolyoakeTo thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.~ William Shakespeare Dec 10, 2019Character is the accumulated confidence that individual men and women acquire from years of doing the right thing, over and over again, even when they don't feel like it. People with character understand that their lives are filled with events and choices that are significant, above all, not because of the short term success or failure of the search for money or position, but because the choices we make are actually making us into one kind of person, or another. Our life of choices is a life-long labor to make ourselves into a person who has begun to respond adequately to the awesome gift we received from God when He made us in His image.~ Alan KeyesWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit~ AristotleThe strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.~ Blaise Pascal Dec 9, 2019Nearly all men can withstand adversity; if you want to test a man's character, give him power.~ Abraham LincolnI hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.~ George WashingtonFortune does not change men; it unmasks them.~ Suzanne Necker Dec 6, 2019Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.~ Henry Brooks AdamsThe less government we have the better - the fewer laws and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character, the growth of the individual.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonThe fact that most people think that being selfish means harming one's fellow man, that pursuing one's own self-interest equates to behaving brutally or irrationally, is, as Ms. Rand noted, a 'psychological confession' on their part. In fact it is against one's own long-term self-interest to behave irrationally or trample others. Such actions are the exact opposite of selfish -- they're self-destructive.~ Wayne Dunn Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print