Chartacter Quotes

A person's a person,

no matter how small.

You have power over your mind—not outside events.

Realize this,

and you will find strength.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Much success can be attributed to inactivity.

Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,

that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower

where I thought a flower would grow.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I hate the giving of the hand

unless the whole man accompanies it.

I insist on a lot of time being spent,

almost every day,

just to sit and think.

To thine own self be true.

God already knows what

we're made of, but perhaps

He wants us to learn what

we're made of. I think we

would all agree that we

learn more from our

tough times than from

our easy times.

Make the best use of what is in your power,

and take the rest as it happens.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Being the richest man in the cemetery

doesn't matter to me.

Going to bed at night saying

we've done something wonderful,

that's what matters to me.

Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing.

Sometimes they have more imagination than men.

Few are those who see with their own eyes

and feel with their own hearts.

O Day of days when we can read!

The reader and the book,

either without the other is naught.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

The soul is healed by being with children

Wisdom has its root in goodness,

not goodness its root in wisdom.

The goal of my shows,

my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it,

whatever ventures I might pursue,

would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far

more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.