Character Building

Quotation By Pawan Dhankhar

"Be flexible, but stick to your principles.” Eleanor Roosevelt 

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

"Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift.  Good character, by contrast, is not given to us.  We have to build it piece by piece— by thought, choice, courage and determination.“   John Luther

"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are." - Roy Disney

“The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.”  - J. Martin Kohe

“People can forgive and forget your mistake.  People cannot forgive nor forget a lie you told them,  not even you.” Unknown

"Ethics is a matter of being good (character) and doing right (action)." - Russell Gough

“Treat other people exactly as you would like to be treated by them…” - Matthew 7:12

“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”      Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

"We aim to develop physique, mentality and character in our students; but because the first two are menaces without the third, the greatest of these is character."
— Joseph Dana Allen, Headmaster Poly Prep Magazine Fall 1989

“We are what we repeatedly do.    Excellence, then, is not an Act, but a Habit.”  - Aristotle

“What comes from a book is Knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.”  Garth Brooks

"Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people." -- Spencer Johnson

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." -- Henry David Thoreau

"Unethical practices are always self-destructive over the long run, on both a personal and an organizational level."
-- Tom Morris (from If Aristotle Ran General Motors)

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”  - Benjamin Franklin

“People trust me. I sell sincerity.”   George Foreman

"No one need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

"What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us."  - Jean-Paul

"Your personality is what you are in front of people; your character is who you are when nobody else is looking."  - Mary Levy

"Character is POWER;  it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness." — J. Howe  

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”   Ayan Rand

"If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.”  -   William Feather

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.   Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”  Helen Keller

"The first and best victory is to conquer self." — Plato

"It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

“The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.”    — Gandhi 

"Change your thoughts and you change your world.”  Norman Vincent Peale

"Courage is resistance to Fear, mastery of fear - not absence of FEAR.”   Mark Twain

“…..people tend to prefer to remain in a crowd of wrongs,  than to be right alone.”  Unknown

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”  Mark Twain

"There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without Work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without Character; Religion without sacrifice; Politics without Principle; Science without humanity; Business without Ethics.“  - Mahatma Gandhi 

“Only I can change my life.  No one can do it for me.” Carol Burnett

“Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.”Elizabeth Cady Stanton 

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop

"All I Really Need to Know  I Learned in Kindergarten” Robert Fulghum

You gain Strength, Courage and Confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.   You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror.   I can take the next thing that comes along.”   Eleanor Roosevelt

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.” George MacDonald

 “Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.” Kahlil Gibran