Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.John C. Geikie

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

J. Petit Senn

A good name will shine forever. Proverb

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

J. B. Gough

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. Socrates

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. B. R. Haydon

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson

Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. A. Branson Alcott

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.David Burns, Intimate Connections