Character, Dignity and Integrity
"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in knowing you have earned them." -- Aristotle
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value." --Albert Einstein
"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security." --Gail Sheehy
"Much may be known by a man's character by what excites his laughter." --Goethe
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." --Ann Landers (character and integrity)
"Honor is the one thing no one can take from you; it can only be given away." --Adam Scalettar
"The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the full light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny-- it is the light that guides your way." --Heraclitus
"A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable or dangerous to do so." --Walter Lippmann
"A sure way to lift oneself up is by helping to lift someone else." --Booker T. Washington
"Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’’s wrong is to get caught." --J. C. Watts
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the struggling, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these." --George Washington Carver
"I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but I can still do something..." --Edmund Everett Hale
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." --Oscar Wilde
"The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. [...] Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others." --Wilfred Peterson, This Week
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