Chartacter Quotes

Where there is

righteousness in the heart,

there is harmony in the house;

when there is

harmony in the house,

there is order in the nation;

when there is

order in the nation,

there is peace in the world.

Wishing to be friends

is quick work,

but friendship is a slow

ripening fruit.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship

I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.

It is not attained through self

gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

I like criticism.

It makes you strong.

The things that will destroy America are

prosperity at any price, peace at any price,

safety first instead of duty first,

the love of soft living, and the get rich quick theory of life.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best,

night and day,

to make you everybody else,

means to fight the hardest battle.

A friend is one who

overlooks your broken

fence and admires the

flowers in your garden.

Subjectivity is truth.

Wandering in business is not efficient,

but it’s also not random.

It’s guided.

Creativity is the key to success in the future,

and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity

in children at that level.

You will have many degrees if you cannot read The spiked eyes, then you are illiterate

I believe in being an innovator,

not an imitator.

In every society some,

men are born to rule,

and some to advise.

Lord save us all from old age

and broken health and a hope tree

that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it

and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief

that it is in course of ultimate extinction,

or its advocates will push it forward,

till it shall become alike lawful in all the States old as well as new

North as well as South.

If you stay humble and keep working,

good things will come.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

I remember a specific moment,

watching my grandmother,

hang the clothes on the line,

and her saying to me,

you are going to have to learn to do this,

and me being in that space of awareness and knowing,

that my life would not be the same,

as my grandmother's life.

God writes the Gospel not

in the Bible alone, but

also on trees, and in the

flowers and clouds and stars.