Quotes For You

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always. - Albert Schweitzer

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. - Mother Teresa

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. -John Barrymore, actor

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself. - CHARLES DE GAULLE (1890-1970), French President

What actually urges [the scientific investigator] on is not some brummagem idea of Service, but a boundless, almost pathological thirst to penetrate the unknown, to uncover the secret, to find out what has not been found out before. His prototype is not the liberator releasing slaves, the good Samaritan lifting up the fallen, but a dog sniffing tremendously at an infinite series of rat-holes. -H L Mencken

To change masters is not to be free. -Jose Martin Perez

If you reach an admirable end through the wrong means, the ends ultimately turn to dust in your hands. -Stephen R. Covey

Conscience teaches us that ends and means are inseparable, that ends actually preexist in the means. -Stephen R. Covey

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. - Charles Caleb Colton

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. - French Proverb

If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. - Arab Proverb

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

Moral courage and character go hand in hand .... a man of real character is consistently courageous, being imbued with a basic integrity and a firm sense of principle. - Martha Boaz

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance, and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives. - Albert Einstein

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. - ABIGAIL VAN BUREN ("Dear Abby") advice columnist

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King Jr.

It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be. -Selms Lagerlof

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures. -HORACE GREELEY (1811-1872), New York newspaper editor

It is not the road ahead that wears you out – It is the grain of sand in your shoe. -Arab proverb

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us. -Marcel Proust

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience. - Francis Bacon

The longest journey is the journey inwards of him who has chosen his destiny. -Dag Hammarskjold

Things are always different from what they might be. -Henry James