Candidness
"If
indeed you have to be candid, be candid beautifully."
-
Khalil Gibran
Censorship
"Censorship
reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."
-
Justice Potter Stewart
Changes
"The
displacement of a little sand can change the course of a deep river."
-
Manuel Gonzalez Prada
Character
"The
best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do
him any good and how he treats people who can't fight back."
-
Abigail Van Buren
"Character
is what you are in the dark."
-
Dwight L. Moody
"Fame
is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures
- Character."
-
Horace Greely
"To
test a man's character, give him power."
-
Abraham Lincoln
Charm
"Charm
has a magical quality that defrosts, disarms, delights and fascinates.
It is not a sudden gush if sweetness that can be turned off and on like
a faucet. It is woven subtly into the fabric of the personality, like a
silver thread. It glistens, it shines, it wears well."
-
Ann Landers
Citizenry
Civilization
"Civilization
has not advanced by force alone. The most significant advances have come
through intellect and the willingness of men and women to try to go forward
in cooperation."
-
Arkady Shevchenko in "Breaking With Moscow"
Civilized
Man
"Before
you can write about people you must be a civilized man. To be civilized
you must have two things: compassion and ability to roll with the punches.
Never laugh at a guy who has had bad luck. And if you have bad luck, don't
fight it; roll with it and bounce back."
-
Hemingway
Comfort
"Comfort,
like drug, is addictive. The more you have had of it, the more of it you
will need."
-
Fr. Guido Arquelles, S.J.
Compassion
"More
than talent and skill, the healing power of a medicine man is his compassion."
-
AGP
Compliments
& Praises
On
the difference between compliment & praise...
... Praise is earned; compliment is free.
"Anything
scarce is valuable, praise for example."
-
Bits of Pieces
"Pleasure
is the sincerest compliment."
-
Coco Chanel
Confidence
Conscience
"Conscience
is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort."
-
Bert Murray
"The
most painful wound in the world is a stab of conscience."
-
John Ellis Large
On
Conscience - Rule of Thumb:
"How
would I feel if my mother were to see me right this instant?"
-
Bob Green
Contemplation
"It
is better to sleep on what you intend to do than to stay awake over what
you have not done."
-
Bill Gold
Contentment
"If
you can take in stride the vagaries of nature and laugh at the foibles
of mankind, you are completely at peace with yourself and the world."
-
AGP
"Blessed
is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed."
-
Alexander Pope
"Contentment
comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants."
-
quoted
Courage
"Man
cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the
shore."
-
Andre Gide
"It
is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because
we do not dare that things are difficult."
-
Seneca
On
the courage of one's conviction:
"The
rarest kind of courage is the courage to examine one's conviction and to
revise or abandon them in the light of such scrutiny."
-
Sydney Harris, Columnist
Cowardice
Cowards
& Braves
"Even
cowards can endure hardships; only the brave can endure suspense."
-
Mignon McLaughlin
Creativity
"Creativity
is more than just being different. Making the simple complicated is commonplace;
making the complicated simple - that's creativity."
-
Charles Mingus, Jazz Musician
Crime
& Violence
"Crime
cannot be avoided because no human being is perfect. But the failure of
justice is more damaging to society than crime itself."
-
from the movie "The Lipstick"
Criticism
"If
it is painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing
it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold
your tongue."
-
Alice Miller
"Criticism
may not be agreeable but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function
as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of
things."
-
Winston Churchill
Curiosity
"Curiosity
is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
-
Samuel Johnson
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