~John Marks Templeton

~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"One learns through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect."

~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

~Aesop

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."

~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

~William Morrow

"A man's character is his fate."

~Heraclitus

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."

~Phillip Brooks

"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

"It is possible to get all A's and flunk life."

~Walker Percy

"I dream of the day when all Americans will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We must remember that education is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the true goal of education."

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

~James A. Froude

"It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit."

~Robert Yates

"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."

~Margaret Carty

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."

~Henry Ford

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."

~Michael Jordan

"People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them."

~Dr. Allan Fromme

"Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal."

~Elbert Hubbard

"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose-somehow we win out."

~Ronald Reagan

"Goals determine what you are going to be."

~Julius Erving

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

~Henry Ford

"I am a big believer in the 'mirror test.' All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best."

~John McKay

"Be silly. Be honest. Be kind."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."

~George Washington

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."

~Mark Twain

"When in doubt, tell the truth."

~Mark Twain

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truth without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition."

~Thomas Jefferson

"All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for."

~Woodrow T. Wilson

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

~Elbert Hubbard

"Peace, like charity, begins at home."

~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."

~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All we are saying is: give peace a chance."

~John Lennon

"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one."

~John Lennon

"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time."

~Lyndon B. Johnson

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."

~Abraham Lincoln

"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."

~Christopher Morley

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

~Billie Jean King

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

~John Albert Michener

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."

~Babe Ruth

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

~Beverly Sills

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

~Albert Einstein

"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you."

~Baltasar Gracian

"Character-the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - it is the sources from which self-respect springs."

~Joan Didion

"Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due."

~Eldridge Cleaver

"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."

~Jackie Robinson

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

~Jesse Owens

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of."

~Jim Rohn

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you."

~Henry Ward Beecher

"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."

~Theodore Roosevelt

"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."

~Alexander Graham Bell

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

~Wayne Dyer

"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us."

~Benjamin Franklin

"What man's mind can create, man's character can control."

~Thomas A. Edison

"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money - sincerity and integrity."

~Donald A. Adams

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."

~John Wooden