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Management Character - 3

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. --Abraham Lincoln
• Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. --John M. Barrie
• Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. --Frank Lloyd Wright
• Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better. --Anonymous
• Nothing preaches better than the act. --Benjamin Franklin
• Only the shallow know themselves. --Oscar Wilde
• One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can. --Josh Billings
• Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. --H. Jackson Browne, 
• People only see what they are prepared to see. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. --Mark Twain
• Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg. --Unknown
• Service is just love in work clothes. --Unknown
• Sow a thought, reap an act; Sow an act, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap a destiny. --Charles Reade
• Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view. --Unknown
• Tempt not a desperate man. --Shakespeare
• Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know. --Charles Kingsley
• The effect of one upright individual is incalculable. --Oscar Arias
• The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance. --Liddon
• The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. --Thomas Kempis
• The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. --E. J. Phelps
• The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. --Winston Churchill
• There are two methods of human activity -- and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: one use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad. --Leo Tolstoi
• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. --William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
• There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. --Don Herold
• There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. --Goethe
• The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. --Harold Taylor
• The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. --Confucius
• The time has come for all good men to rise above principle. --Huey Long
• The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. --Franklin P. Jones
• The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. --Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. --Unknown
• They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. --Carl W. Buechner
• Think the truth; Speak the truth; Act the truth. --Unknown
• Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. --Sir James Barrie
• To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. --Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband"
• To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. --Winston Churchill
• We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• We judge others by their behavior but ourselves by our intentions. --Stephen Covey
• We live in deeds, not years; In thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lies who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. --Philip James Bailey
• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
• We teach them proper principles and let them govern themselves. --Prophet Joseph Smith
• We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility. --Newton Minow, chairman of the FCC
• We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not. --Anthony Robbins
• What breaks in a moment may take years to mend. --Swedish proverb
• What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. --Thoreau
• What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. --Albert Pine
• When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. --George Bernard Shaw
• You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. --Abraham Lincoln
• Use soft words and hard arguments. --Unknown

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