"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate
with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak
and
strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of
these."
"A man without character is like a ship without a rudder. "
Karl G. Maeser
Publilius Syrus, God’s Little Devotional for Graduates, p. 200
Mark Twain
Gordon B. Hinckley (Ensign, November 1984, page 91)
Abraham Lincoln
"Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
German writer, scientist, master of poetry, drama
and novel
Ezra Taft Benson (General Conference Report, April 1966, page 128)
"I remember my mother saying to me on one occasion, 'Mel, I know that I can count on you.' I resolved that she would always be able to count on me. I would not let her down. I loved her too much. Her confidence in me meant everything. Today I still feel that way. I feel that way about the Brethren. I don't ever want to let President Hinckley or any of the other leaders of the Church down. But, even more important, I never want to let the Savior down, because I love Him more than anything else."
"Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have."
Marva Collins
Og Mandino
"Personality has the power to open many doors; but character must keep them open."
"Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life."
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
Phillips Brooks
In a letter to John Adams on Oct. 28, 1813, Thomas Jefferson said:
"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents...There is also an artificial aristocracy, founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents."
Book: The Life and Selected Writings
of Thomas
Jefferson
Quoted in BYU Speeches, 1994-95, p. 113
Albert Einstein
Improvement Era, Dec. 1949, p. 863
Quoted in BYU Speeches 1994-95, p. 113