A Treasury of Quotes

CHARACTER

The measure of a nation's greatness is the character of her people.
~C.A.McClung

A key to the character of a people is whom they esteem as heroes.
~C.A.McClung

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Moral education that is merely intellectual misses the crucial emotional side of character, which serves as the bridge between judgment and action.
~Thomas Lickona, "The Return of Character Education"

Quotes from James Allen:

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors, that which it loves, and also that which it fears.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.

Even the man whose sole object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions an never produce good results.

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts.

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COURAGE

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage -- and that's the same thing.
~George Horace Lorimer

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear, and obstacles vanish into air.
~John Quincy Adams

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
~Peter Drucker

BEN FRANKLIN QUOTES

The general foible of mankind is in the pursuit of wealth to no end.

When truth has fair play, it will always prevail over falsehood.

The good men may do separately, is small compared with what they may do collectively.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

Fish and Visitors stink after three days.

No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.

You will be careful, if you are wise, how you touch men's Religion, or Credit, or Eyes.

Industry pays Debts, Despair encreases them.

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king/The meanset Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

Declaiming against Pride, is not always a Sign of Humility.

Neglect kills Injuries, Revenge increases them.

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.

Little Strokes, Fell great Oaks.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his Portion.

Observe all men; thyself most.

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

Haste makes Waste.

The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom spun too fine.

As Pride increases, Fortune declines.

Fear not death, for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to thee, look on his mouth.

If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.


HUMILITY

Humbly submitting our will to the Father brings us the empowerment of God— the power of humility. ~ Richard C. Edgley

Perhaps the most sacred words in all the scriptures are simply, “not my will, but thine, be done.”
~ Richard C. Edgley

JOY
“Joy comes through righteous living. It is not a casual or shallow feeling, ever. Joy is not a stranger to pain. We may not feel deeply enough to know joy unless our hearts have been hollowed out by sorrow. A heart may not be big enough to know real joy until it has been stretched and pulled by trials and hard things.

“[Joy] is about changing lives, one at a time. The great thieves of joy are envy and pride. Comparing [ourselves to others] is measuring, and it destroys joy. [Those who] are too focused on the work to dwell on their own imperfections; . . .their strengths come to the fore.

Joy is about overcoming. The smallest improvement brings courage. . .keep trying. [Learn] to forgive each other and work through problems because. . . hard feelings drive the Spirit away.

Joy is in Jesus Christ. He chose to accomplish the Atonement so we could eventually experience a fulness of joy. His gift. . . is not freedom from hard work or sorrow or stretching but the surety that every ounce of effort in His name is an investment in joy.”
~Barbara Workman


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