Chartacter Quotes

Connection is why we’re here;

it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

Being busy does not always mean real work.

The object of all work is production or accomplishment

and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system,

planning, intelligence, and honest purpose,

as well as perspiration.

Seeming to do is not doing.

Style is about expressing your personality,

not following rules.

One way to keep momentum going is to have

constantly greater goals

Michael Korda

Your brand is your reputation.

If the people remember

me as a good teacher,

that will be the

biggest honour for me.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

My philosophy is that not only,

are you responsible for your life,

but doing the best at this moment,

puts you I the best place for the next moment.

Happiness is a butterfly,

which when pursued,

is always just beyond

your grasp, but which,

if you will sit down quietly,

may alight upon you.

Be true to yourself;

don’t let fame change who you are.

Friendship with a man

is friendship with

his virtue.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Hope begins in the dark,

the stubborn hope that if you just show up

and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.

True art is characterized

by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

This country,

with its institutions,

belongs to the people who inhabit it.

Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,

they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it,

or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

We are by nature observers,

and thereby learners.

That is our permanent state.

Against the assault of laughter,

nothing can stand.

Life’s a game,

but it’s not fair.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,

and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave,

I would do it;

and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone,

I would also do that.

Learn from yesterday,

live for today,

hope for tomorrow.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.