Chartacter Quotes

Life is complicated.

Politics is complicated.

But sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Better than living a hundred years without virtue is

one day lived with virtue.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Only through experience of trial and suffering can

the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired,

and success achieved.

When angry, count to four;

when very angry, swear.

Real living is living for others.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements

than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty,

and we must rise with the occasion.

As our case is new,

so we must think anew and act anew.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,

or sailed to an uncharted land,

or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Press criticism is not pleasant,

but it is necessary.

It is part of the machinery of democracy.

In giving freedom to the slave,

we assure freedom to the free

honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve.

We shall nobly save,

or meanly lose,

the last best hope of earth.

Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy.

It will either keep you or destroy you.

The pain now is part of the happiness then.

That’s the deal.

Sustaining true friendship

is a lot more challenging

than we give it credit for.

Authenticity is everything in art.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

The mystic cords of memory,

stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to

every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,

will yet swell the chorus of the Union,

when again touched,

as surely they will be,

by the angels of our nature.

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.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time,

and your government when it deserves it.