Life had to break you down so you could be rebuilt better.
You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.
The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea. It’s the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.