Chartacter Quotes

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Being elected to Congress,

though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it,

has not pleased me as much as I expected.

Common looking people are the best in the world:

that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Show class,

have pride,

and display character.

I’ve failed over and over again in my life.

That is why I succeed.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.

I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Solitude is painful when one is young,

but delightful when one is more mature.

Haters will broadcast your failures,

but whisper your success.

Defeat is a state of mind;

no one is ever defeated until

defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Do not be afraid.

Open wide the doors to Christ.

Put the work in,

and the rest will follow.

Be humble.

Be hungry.

And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Education is not the filling of a pail,

but the lighting of a fire.

I think I'm cool.

That's all that matters.

The best decisions aren’t made with your mind,

but with your instinct.

An intelligent mind is like a fortress that is never truly complete.

You have to have a certain amount of

arrogance to be a performer.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is

the first necessity of progress.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life:

it goes on.

Mankind,

when left to themselves,

are unfit for their own government.