Sir Francis Bacon on humility
“The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.”
- Sir Francis Bacon
Henri Bergson on your character
“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
— Henri Bergson
John Wooden on doing things right the first time
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
- John Wooden
John Wooden on your character
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
John Wooden on Character
“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
John Wooden
Eleanor Roosevelt quote on facing your fears
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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Vince Lombardi quote
“Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.”
-Vince Lombardi
Plautus on Character’s value
“I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune,
while character comes from within.”
- Plautus
A test of Character
I learned that you can tell a lot about a man’s true character by the way he handles these three things: tangled Christmas lights, a bad call at his kid’s athletic event and how he talks about his wife when she’s not around.
- Trey Morgan
A benefit of acting with character
“Taking the high road will always make for a more rewarding and sometimes difficult journey. But you will never get lost.”
— Peg Woods