Change Publishing - Achieve Your Full Potential - 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life

Phillips Brooks

"Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty. "

Phillips Brooks

"Sad is the day for any man when he becomes absolutely satisfied with the life he is living, the thoughts that he is thinking and the deeds that he is doing; when there ceases to be forever beating at the doors of his soul a desire to do something larger which he seeks and knows he was meant and intended to do."

Phillips Brooks

"Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process."

Phillips Brooks

“You build a successful carreer, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.”

Zig Ziglar

"Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.”

Hugh B. Brown

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."

Jackson Browne

"It is an old saying, and one of fearful and fathomless import, that we are forming characters for eternity. Forming characters - Whose? Our own or others? Both and in that momentous act lies the peril and responsibility of our existence."

Elihu Burritt

"A man’s got to know his limitations."

Harry Callahan

"All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted."

Andrew Carnegie

"The higher up you go, the more gentle you have to reach down to help other people succeed."

Rick Castro

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."

Cato the Elder

"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do."

William Ellery Channing

"Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word."

Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield

"He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence."

Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Cheserfield

“When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.”

Zig Ziglar

"The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom."

Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield

"The real long term objective of the Welfare Plan is the fulfilling of character in the members of the Church, givers and receivers, rescuing all that is finest down deep inside of them, and bringing to flower and fruitage the latent richness of the Spirit, which, after all, is the mission and purpose and reason for being of this Church.”

J. Reuben Clark Jr.

"A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people."

Henry Clay

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."

Henry Clary

"Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are."

Frederick L. Collins

"It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall b e rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account."

Confucius

"We do not need more national development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen."

John Calvin Coolidge

"Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us man hood or womanhood fiber."

Dr. Frank Crane

"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better."

John Dewey

"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains."

Helen Douglas

"To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies."

Sir Arthur Anthony Eddington

"The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us."

Jonathan Edwards

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

Albert Einstein

“With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.”

Zig Ziglar

"Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you would not be known to do anything, never do it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Self-trust is the essence of heroism."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can't hear what you're saying."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace. While it stands, the latest generations of the grateful children of America will make this pilgrimage to it as to a shrine; and when it shall fall, if fall it must, the memory and the name of Washington shall shed an eternal glory on the spot."

Edward Everett

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward."