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"Character is the aim of true
education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish
this desired end."
--David O. McKay--
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"Whenever you violate a principle
(such as honesty, morality, integrity, etc.), you get a short-term gain,
but a long-term loss."
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"The greatest battles of life
are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul."
--David O. McKay--
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"Character is not built in an
emergency--merely exhibited."
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"You will never have a greater
or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a man's
success is gauged by his self-mastery: the depth of his failure by
his self-abandonment. He who cannot establish dominion over himself
will have no dominion over others."
--Leonardo de Vinci--
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"Self-discipline is doing what
you know you should do when you don't want to do it."
--N. Eldon Tanner--
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"To say no at the right time,
and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the
wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean."
--David Starr Jordan--
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"A chain is no stronger than its
weakest link;
A brain is no stronger than its
weakest think;
A grain is no stronger than its
weakest seed;
A man is no stronger than his
weakest deed.
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"The reward for being true to
a correct principle is worth whatever it costs, and often the greatest
reward is the character development in the person who remains true."
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"CHARACTER is much easier kept
than recovered."
--Thomas Paine--
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"The greatest reward is not what
we receive for our labor, but what we become by it."
--John Ruskin--
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"We are poor in character when
we think getting by is a substitute for doing our best."
--Marvin J. Ashton, BYU
Devotional--
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"I had rather do and not promise,
than promise and not do."
--Arthur Warwick--
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"Men and Women of Christ are constant,
being the same in private as in public. We cannot keep two sets of
books while heaven has but one."
--Elder Neal A. Maxwell--
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"Never esteem anything as of advantage
to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect."
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus--
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"The simple virtues of willingness,
readiness, alertness, and courtesy will carry a young man farther than
mere smartness."
--Henry P. Daveson--
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"There is no pillow so soft as
a clear conscience."
--French Proverb--
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"To educate a man in mind and
not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
--Theodore Roosevelt--
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"To see what is right, and
not to do it, is a want of courage."
--Confucius--
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