Character Traits Character traits are words used to describe a person through observed actions or responses during certain situations. This process is commonly used by authors in books to describe characters and to make their stories more real and relatable to the reader. Responsibility-Responsibility means being dependable, making good choices, and taking accountability for your actions. A responsible citizen looks out for the well being of others and understands we all have a part to play in making the world a better place. Quotes about Responsibility:
“The time is always right to do what is right” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
‘I must do something’ always solves more problems than ‘Something must be done.’” – Author Unknown
“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” – Author Unknown
“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.” – Louis Nizer
“Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.” – Robert Brault
“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” – Les Brown
“Though I am not always responsible for what happens to me, I am responsible for how I handle what happens to me.” – Zig Ziglar
“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” – Bob Dylan
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill
“Mistakes are always forgivable is one has the courage to admit them.” – Bruce Lee
“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.” – Chuck Palahniuk
“Every person who has changed the world has taken responsibility for something that mattered not just to them, but to mankind.” – Mike Stutman
“With great power comes great responsibility.” – Voltaire
“Quit making excuses. Putting it off. Complaining about it. Dreaming about it. Whining about it. Crying about it. Believing you can’t. Worrying if you can. Waiting until you are older. Make a plan & just do it.” – Nike
“It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.” – Moliere
“Nothing will ever change while you point the finger of blame. Out of responsibility comes possibility.” – Lisa Villa Prosen
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.” – Mitt Romney
“Every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity and obligation, every possession, a duty.” – John D. Rockefeller
Respect-Respect means that you accept somebody for who they are, even when they're different from you or you don't agree with them. Respect in your relationships builds feelings of trust, safety, and wellbeing. Showing respect to someone means you act in a way that shows you care about their feelings and well-being. Showing respect for others include things like not calling people mean names, treating people with courtesy, caring enough about yourself that you don't do things you know can hurt you. Quotes about Respect:
“Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.” – U. Thant
“Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by the way it’s covered; for inside those tattered pages, there’s a lot to be discovered.” – Stephen Cosgrove
“Leave everything a bit better then you found it.” Unknown
“We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same.” – C. JoyBell C.
“It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way.” – Jeremy Aldana
“Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.” – Ray Davis
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” – Albert Einstein
“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.” – Stieg Larsson
“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” – Bryan H. McGill
“The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.” – Chief Seattle
“A person’s a person no matter how small.” – Dr. Seuss
“Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.” – Thomas Paine
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” – Albert Einstein
“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” – Jackie Robinson
“I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.” – Julius Erving
“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.” – Bono
“It is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don’t expect anybody to be the same as you, then you will see that you are in many ways the same as everybody.” C. JoyBell C.
“Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.”- J. H. Oldham
“Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.” – Lakhdar Brahimi
“Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.” – Mahatma Ghandi
Kindness-Kindness means you are concerned about other people. Kind people think about another person's feelings and just their own, they help someone who is in need, and they are kind even when others are not. Kind people do things to make others happy and never expect anything in return. Quotes about Kindness:
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.” – Margaret Mead
“What this world needs is a new kind of army – the army of the kind.” – Cleveland Amory
“The simple act of caring is heroic.” – Edward Albert
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. – Aesop
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” – Desmond Tutu
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.” – Henry James
“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.” – Harold Kushner
“I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.” – Pablo Casals
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” – Plato
“Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.” – Adam Lindsay Gordon
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – Dalai Lama
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up.” – Booker T. Washington
“Be a little kinder than you have to.” – E. Lockhart
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss
“Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another’s unhappiness.” – Aesop
“To belittle, you have to be little.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest.” – Francis Bacon
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Never be so busy as not to think of others.” – Mother Teresa
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” – John Holmes
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” – Leo Buscaglia
“That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” – William Wordsworth
Cooperation- Cooperation is when two or more people work together so that they are all better off. For cooperation to work, everyone has to be an active member of the team and do what they agree to do. Examples of cooperation include sharing materials or personal belongings with another person, cordially working together to create a presentation or report on the job, agreeing to compromise when a conflict or disagreement arises and including all members of a group in a discussion or team meeting. Quotes about Cooperation:
Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.-Helen Keller
Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.-Sir Ken Robinson Ph.D.
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.H.E. Luccock
If we would just support each other - that's ninety percent of the problem.-Edward Gardner
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.-Althea Gibson
We should not only use the brains we have but all that we can borrow.-Woodrow Wilson
We may have all come on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now.-Martin Luther King Jr.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.-Charles Darwin
If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.-Benjamin Franklin
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.-Margaret Carty
Many hands make light work.-John Heywood
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable-Kenyan Proverb
None of us is as smart as all of us.-Ken Blanchard
A man may do an immense deal of good, if he does not care who gets the credit for it.-Father Strickland
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Meade
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skill of the others.-Norman Shidle
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.-George Burns
Individually, we are one drop. Together we are an ocean.-Ryunosuke Satoro
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.-Benjamin Franklin
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. -Buddha
Gratitude- Gratitude means thanks and appreciation. When you feel gratitude, you're pleased by what someone did for you, what you have or your current situation. Gratitude is about focusing on what's good in our lives and being thankful for the things we have. Gratitude is pausing to notice and appreciate the things that we often take for granted, like having a place to live, food, clean water, friends, family, even computer access.
“Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices.” – Robert Braathe
“If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.” – Gerald Good
“If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.” – Frank A. Clark
“The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.” – Charles Schwab
“At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” – Willie Nelson
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – President John F. Kennedy
“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.” – Brian Tracy
“Sometimes we should express our gratitude for the small and simple things like the scent of the rain, the taste of your favorite food, or the sound of a loved one’s voice.”- Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” – William Arthur Ward
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” – William Arthur Ward
“It’s wonderful to be grateful. To have that gratitude well out from deep within you and pour out in waves. Once you truly experience this, you will never want to give it up.” – Srikumar Rao
“The simple act of saying ‘thank you’ is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.” – Simon Mainwaring
“Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.” – Louie Schwartzberg
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” – Thornton Wilder
“Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” – A.A. Milne in Winnie-the-Pooh
“The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” – John Milton
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” – Cicero
“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.” – Randy Pausch
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” – Aesop
“Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.” – Stephen Richards
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” – Buddha
“Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.” – Dan Buettner
Empathy- Empathy is the ability to sense other people's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling. Empathy is the ability to imagine how someone else is feeling or to understand the situation they are in. It is the ability to “put yourself in someone else's shoes” and to understand the way a situation might make them feel.
“Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.” – Alfred Adler
“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.” – John Steinbeck
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa
“We judge what we don’t understand.” – Unknown
“If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” – Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
“The opposite of anger is not calmness. It’s empathy.” – Mehmet Oz
“There are two side to every issue.” – Ayn Rand
“If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.” – Dolly Parton
“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.” – Roger Ebert
“Empathy grows as we learn.” – Alice Miller
“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.” – Jesse Jackson
“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.” – Albert Schweitzer
“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” – Theodore Roosevelt
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. – Epictetus
“Don’t cast shadows on anyone unless you are providing shade.” – Terri Guillemets
“There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.” – Frank Tyger
“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.” – Abraham Lincoln
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know when it will be too late.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.” – Gautama Buddha
“It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.” – Author Unknown
“When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.” – Susan Sarandon
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.” – Meryl Streep
“Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.” – Arundhati Ray
“Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.” – Barack Obama
“One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider a problem, can change our whole outlook on the world.” – E. H. Mayoli
“When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.” – Euripides
“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own. ” – Henry Ford
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eye for an instant?” – Henry David Thoreau
“Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.” – Homer
“Have you ever been surfing? Imagine you’re on your surfboard now, waiting for the big one to come. Get ready to get carried with that energy. Now, here it comes. That’s empathy. No words – just being with that energy. When I connect with what’s alive in another person, I have feelings similar to when I’m surfing.” – Marshall Rosenberg
“I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.” – Maya Angelou
“Leadership is about empathy.”– Oprah Winfrey
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”- Simone Weil
“If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.” – Turkish Proverb
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein
Perseverance- Perseverance means that when you are facing a challenge, you use your mind and your body to overcome it. Perseverance means you are able to wait and work through difficulties, whether they have to do with your mind, your body, or your emotions. Perseverance is not giving up. It is persistence and tenacity, the effort required to do something and keep doing it till the end, even if it's hard. Quotes about Perseverance:
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson
“Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.” – Victor Hugo
“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.” – Marilyn Monroe
“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Be like a postage stamp, stick to something until you get there!” – Josh Billings
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” – Randy Pausch
Grit- To have grit means you have courage and show the strength of your character. A person with true grit has passion and perseverance. Goals are set and followed through. A person who works really hard to follow through on commitments has true grit. Grit involves working strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress. Quotes about grit:
“Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.” – Robert Strauss
“F-E-A-R has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.” – Zig Ziglar
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino
“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell
“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.” – Winston Churchill
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi Jr.
“I wouldn’t be where I am now if I didn’t fail … a lot. The good, the bad, it’s all part of the success equation.” – Mark Cuban
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” – Jesse Owens
“I’ve always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you’ve got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.” – Chuck Norris
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
“Difficulties break some men, but make others.”
“Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.” – Dan Gable
“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” – Nelson Mandela
Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
‘Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.’ – C.S. Lewis
Patience-Patience is the quality of waiting calmly without complaining. An example of patience is someone standing peacefully in a very long line. Patience is a person's ability to wait something out or endure something tedious, without getting riled up. Having patience means you can remain calm, even when you've been waiting forever or dealing with something painstakingly slow or trying to teach someone how to do something and they just don't get it. Quotes about patience:
“Patience is bitter. But its fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
“Patience is not the ability to wait, but how you act while you’re waiting.” –Joyce Meyer
“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” – Saddi
“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties appear and obstacles vanish.” – John Quincy Adams
“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” – Arnold H. Glasow
“Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.” - Phillips Brooks
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” –Edmund Burke
“Genius is eternal patience.” – Michelangelo
“Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill
“With love and patience, nothing is impossible.” – Daisaku Ikeda
“The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience.” — Leo Tolstoy
“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” – Moliere
“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” – Margaret Thatcher
“Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.” – George-Louis de Buffon
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
“A person always breaking off from work never finishes anything.” – Nigerian proverb
“Today’s patience can transform yesterday’s discouragements into tomorrow’s discoveries.” – William Arthur Ward
“A moment of patience in a moment of anger saves you a hundred moments of regret.” – Anonymous
Honesty- Honesty means more than not lying. A more complete definition of honesty shows that an honest person doesn't do things that are morally wrong. Honesty also involves being trustworthy, loyal, fair, and sincere. Quotes about honesty: If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.-Mark Twain
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. -Thomas Carlyle
A half-truth is a whole lie.-Yiddish Proverb
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.-Bill Copeland
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.-Tad Williams
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.-Thomas Jefferson
There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.-Arthur Dobrin
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.-Robert Brault
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.-Mark Twain
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. -Booker T. Washington
Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter. -Lemony Snicket
When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. -William Blake
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.-Leo Tolstoy
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. -Denis Diderot
Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.-author unknown
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.-William Shakespeare
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.-Henry David Thoreau
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.-John Ruskin
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.-George Bernard Shaw
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.-Emile Zola
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.Albert Einstein
Integrity- Integrity is the ability to act in ways that are consistent with the values, beliefs, and moral principles we claim to hold. It’s about doing the right thing, even when no one is watching; and about courage, honesty, and respect in one’s daily interactions. Having integrity means you are true to yourself and would do nothing that demeans or dishonors you. Quotes about Integrity:
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. -Alan Simpson
Character is much easier kept than recovered.-Thomas Paine
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. -French Proverb
Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort. -Bert Murray
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.-Will Rogers
What you want to be eventually, that you must be every day; and by and by the quality of your deeds will get down into your soul.-Frank Crane
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.-Jean Paul Richter
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.-Elbert Hubbard
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.-Alphonse Karr
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.-Albert Einstein
Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.-Author Unknown
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.-Lao-Tzu
If there is beauty in character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.-Chinese Proverb
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare. -William Arnot
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.-Will Durant
What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. -Bodie Thorne
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.-Arnold H. Glasow
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.-Abraham Lincoln
The time is always right to do what is right. -Martin Luther King Jr.
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.-Harriet Woods
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.-Oprah Winfrey
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right, decide on what you think is right and stick to it.-George Eliot
A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?-John Steinbeck
Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.-George Bernard Shaw
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.-Leo Tolstoy
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.-Welsh Proverb
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.-Adlai Stevenson
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.-John Lubbock
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. -James D. Miles
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. -William Shakespeare
You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.-Rwandan Proverb
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.-Mario Cuomo
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.-Confucius
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -David Star Jordan
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.-German Proverb
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.-Socrates
Courage- Courage is the ability to do what frightens you. It’s the willingness to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Courage takes the risk and seizes what is essential for growth. Quotes about courage:
Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.” – Henry Ford
“It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.” – Pablo Casals
“He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.” – Aristotle
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Sir Winston Churchill
“Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.” – Arthur Koestler
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
“To dream anything that you want to dream. That’s the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.” – Bernard Edmonds
“All our dreams can come true…if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
“Trust the still, small voice that says, ‘this might work and I’ll try it.'” – Diane Mariechild
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – André Gide
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
“Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage — it can be delightful.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” W. Clement Stone
“It may take courage to embrace the possibilities of your own potential, but once you’ve flown past the summit of your fears, nothing will seem impossible.” – Michael McKee
Resilience - the ability to recover from or adjust to misfortune or change. Quotes about Resilience: “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.” JK Rowling “It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” ~JK Rowling “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” –Oprah Winfrey “Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.” –Oprah Winfrey “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” -Maya Angelou “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ ~Eleanor Roosevelt “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” -Harriet Tubman “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” -Alice Walker
Acceptance- Acceptance is a person's dealing with the reality of a situation, another person, or recognizing a process or condition (often a negative or uncomfortable situation) without attempting to change it or protest it. Quotes about Acceptance:
“The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.” – Albert Einstein
“You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Not all who wander are lost.” – Gandolf
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost.
“Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!” – Mandy Hale
“We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.” – Mother Teresa
“You’re lucky enough to be different, never change” – Taylor Swift
“We are all born originals.” – Edward Young
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy
“I am different. Not less.” – Temple Grandin
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Maya Angelou
“The things that make me different are the things that make me.” – Winnie The Pooh
“I want to say when I was little, like Maleficent, I was told I was different. And I felt out of place and too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in. And then one day I realized something – something I hope you all realize. Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.” – Angelina Jolie
“By being yourself you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” – Edwin Elliott
“Kites rise high against the wind, not with it.” – Winston Churchil
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel
“Being different isn’t a bad thing. It means you’re brave enough to be yourself.” – Luna Lovegood
“Don’t doubt your value. Don’t run from who you are.” – Aslan
“Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.”- Anita Roddick
“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”- Oprah Winfrey
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Apple Inc.
“Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.”
“I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.” – Tila Tequila
“People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.” – Mary-Louise Parker
“To be nobody but yourself in a world doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human can ever fight and never stop fighting.” – E. E. Cummings
“Being different is good; embrace it.” – Simon Cowell
“Insist on yourself; never imitate.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
“When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don’t take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.” – Michael Josephson
“You can make life very simple or very complicated. Some people try to be what others want them to be. Others try to be different just to stand out. In both cases, they are changing themselves to impress others. Neither of these paths has a heart. Just be true to yourself. It’s that simple.” – Mike Stutman
“Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can’t be in life.” – Meg Medina