Food for thought

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by

contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it,

piece to piece -- by thought, choice,

courage, and determination.

H. Jackson Brown

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the

tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say

about him. Leo Aikman

We aim to develop physique, mentality, and character in our students; but because the first two are menaces without the third, the greatest of these is character. -

Joseph Dana Allen

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, but it

takes character and self control to be understanding

and forgiving.

Dale Carnegie

The qualities of a great man are "vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character”. Dwight Eisenhower

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits.

Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Author Unknown

Character is power, it makes friends, draws

patronage and support and opens the way to

wealth, honor and happiness. J. Howe

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost,

all is lost! Anonymous

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will

remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not

on marble. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Good is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good

and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes

destiny in the individual and in the race. Edward O. Sisson

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something

you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming. Jim Rohn

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a

person’s character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us

glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

Hippolyte Taine

Let us not say, “Every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, ‘Every

man is the architect of his own character.’ ”George Dana Boardman

Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which

you may spell character. Johann Kasper Lavater

“Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are

wrong: it is character.” Albert Einstein

“Character is doing the right thing when nobody's

looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing

that's wrong is to get caught.”

J.C. Watts

“One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.”

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true

value of all people and all their work."

Orison Sweet Marden

The End

Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything.

Walt Whitman

With Metta,Bro. Oh Teik Bin