“The sensitive person understands that each person's ordeal is unique and should not be compared to anyone else's. Next, they do the practical things: making lunch, dusting the room, washing the towels. They don't try to minimize what is going on. They don't attempt to reassure with false, saccharine…”— David Brooks, amazon.com
“Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning.”— David Brooks, amazon.com
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”— Lecrae, twitter.com
“The self and the various figures representing the world are equally important . . .”— Ralph Freedman, amazon.com
“Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.”— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com
“Showing HUMILITY will take u a long way! You can be CONFIDENT but arrogance is NOT becoming on ANYONE.”— Missy Elliott, twitter.com
“Please do not dim that beautiful light that's inside of your soul for anyone. Ever.”— Letitia Wright, twitter.com
“We all have to navigate the psychological and emotional pathology we inherit from our parents and environment. Fortunately, nothing we experience eliminates our free will and our ability to choose how to respond.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Be thankful they don't know you too well. You can use that vacuum to be you and create what you want to create.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our Government.”— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.org
“Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will. That the changing of bodies, like costumes, would make me into a different character, a character who might, finally, be all right. I learned very early to choose my lines c…”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“Testing people—it's the only way to truly know who they are.”— Vanessa Rojas, Cal Roberts, Hugh Dancy, imdb.com
“The second you start feeling ashamed about your quirks is the second things actually start getting weird.”— Jordan Bach, twitter.com
“Socialists must be in favor of an aristocratic form of government. We must have the best men for the job . . . In the dictator you must have a man who has not only the power to govern but the force of character to impose himself as dictator whether you like him or not.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”— Theodore Roosevelt, books.google.com
“Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character.”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org
“I see spring cleaning now for what it really is: an identity crisis. Throw away everything that is no longer 'you.'”— Brit Marling, twitter.com
“You can tell a lot about yourself by how you treat people who can do nothing for you.”— Brit Marling, twitter.com
“If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.”— Jim Brown, esquire.com