Chartacter Quotes

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

And if you can’t help them,

at least don’t hurt them.

Better than a thousand useless words is

one useful word.

America is another name for opportunity.

That our government should have been maintained in its original

form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at.

It had many props to support it through that period,

which now are decayed and crumbled away.

Through that period,

it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now,

it is understood to be a successful one.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.

Your goodness must have some edge to it,

else it is none.

I never smoke to excess that is,

I smoke in moderation,

only one cigar at a time.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel

in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Failure will never overtake me

if my determination to succeed is strong enough

Og Mandino

Tell me,

what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Comedy is the art of making people laugh while making them think.

Concern for man and his fate must always form

the chief interest of all technical endeavors.

Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Ideas are more powerful than guns.

Complaining is not a strategy.

You have to work with the world as you find it.

It’s not whether you get knocked down,

it’s whether you get up.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Whether it be true or not,

I can say, for one, that I have no other

so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow

men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

How far I shall succeed in gratifying

this ambition is yet to be developed.

Pain is part of the process;

it builds character.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth

is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves

when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep

into our own natures.

I’m a romantic at heart.

Some memories are

unforgettable,

remaining ever vivid and

heartwarming!