STOP AND THINK - Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. (Bruce Lee, marital artist and actor) We must not discount the value of knowledge. We spend our lives learning, and the more we learn, the more capable we should be. Others would disagree with Lee,...
STOP AND THINK - People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. (Eleanor Roosevelt, late USA “First Lady”) Experience is a teacher without parallel. We can learn a lot from books, classes, hard study and...
STOP AND THINK - When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. (Billy Graham, American evangelist) Wealth—money, property, possessions—are temporary, so to lose them, while painful, should not...
STOP AND THINK - The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love, and loyalty. (Zig Ziglar, late motivational speaker) We should ask ourselves, “How many of those six ‘foundation stones’ are characteristic of my behavior and...
STOP AND THINK - Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. (Sam Ewing, newspaper reporter and writer) When you are faced with a difficult task, something that will require hard...
STOP AND THINK - A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. (Mark Twain, American author and humorist) When you hear someone repeatedly use inappropriate language (curses, suggestive innuendo, etc.), don’t you...
STOP AND THINK - 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, deaf and blind American author and lecturer) If anyone ever...
STOP AND THINK - The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. (Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist) Although the pressure to conform, to follow the crowd and its fashions may be great, what you decide to do in any given situation...
STOP AND THINK - Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. (Walter Anderson, 20th century American artist, writer, and naturalist) Anderson goes on to say, “I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the...
STOP AND THINK - Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. (Albert Einstein, 20th century German-born theoretical physicist) Einstein is remembered for his great mind and his scientific discoveries and research. While not noted, particularly, for his...
STOP AND THINK - Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. (Abraham Lincoln) Times of trial may be good tests of your integrity. How do you react to troubles? What attitudes do you demonstrate and what is your...
STOP AND THINK - What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. (Plutarch, 1st & 2nd century Greek historian and essayist) Experience should teach us that what we are internally (mind and heart) ultimately determines how we behave outwardly. What we do in...