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Need a Quick Ship Gift? Visit our Quick Ship Gift Ideas section now. Some of our Favorite Quotes Character Builders We can complain that the rosebush has thorns - or rejoice that the thorn bush has roses. - Abraham Lincoln If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. - Michael Evans "You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. - Harriet Martineau Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychologist The diamond cannot be polished without friction, or the man perfected without trials. - Chinese Proverb Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free. - Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400) The superior man [or woman] understands what is right; the inferior man [or woman] understands what will sell. - Confucius (B.C. 551-479) There is not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs, than with his children, servants and neighbors. - Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. - Hebrews 13:2, New Testament If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? - Jalai Al-Din Rumi (1207-1273) Integrity has no need of rules - Albert Camus (1913-1960) An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. - Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915) Only a person who has faith in himself can be faithful to others. - Erich Fromm When I was born and how I have lived are unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. - Georgia O'Keefe Every man has within himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who proves the Columbus of his soul. - Goethe (1749-1832) Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purpose. - Kenneth Hildebrand Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. - Walter Landor Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything. - Claude McKay (A Long Way from Home, 1937) We know that a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. - Isaac Bashivis Singer (New York Times magazine, Nov. 1978) This above all: To thine own self be true, and then it must follow, as the night follows the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles. - Proverbs 24:17, Old Testament Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. - Sydney Smith (1771-1845) The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. - Cicero (B.C.E. 106-43) A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. - Basil (329-379 A.D.) 
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