Character Quotes
A good name is more costly than any expensive perfume.
- Bible
Character is like a tree and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln (U.S. 16th Pres.)
Character is what you think in the dark.
- Dwight L. Moody
A man of character has nothing to fear. He did right, he is doing right, and will continue to do right in God's sight until death.
- Guil Gacutan
In my general conclusion, only people of character are truly successful.
- Guil Gacutan
A character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.
- George Dana Boardman
Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.
- John Hays Hammond
Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone.
- Cyrus A. Bartol
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
- Johan Wolfgang Von Geothe
It matters not what you are thought to be but what you are.
- Publillius Cyrus
The essential thing is not knowledge but character.
- Joseph Le Conte
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
- Elbert Green Hubbard
Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything.
- Walt Witman
A man of character is he who is selfless having a servant heart.
- Guil Gacutan
Talent is a gift character is a choice.
- John Maxwell
Leaders cannot rise above the limitation of their character.
- John Maxwell
Success Quotes
Those who succeed in life, no doubt they worked diligently day and night.
- Guil Gacutan
Success is walking from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winton Churchill
Success is inner peace.
- Denzel Washington
The best revenge is massive success.
- Frank Sinatra
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
- David Brinkly
A successful man is he who is doing godly effort and toil.
- Guil Gacutan
Faith Quotes
Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.
- Bible
Nobody can know God without genuine faith in him.
- Guil Gacutan
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to those who don't.
- Blaize Pascal
Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof.
- Khalil Gibran
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
- Plato
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
- Martin Luther
By faith God is pleased.
- Bible
People who are truly faithful to God are not coward.
- Guil Gacutan
Quotes of Love
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.
- Richard Braunstein
You can love without giving, but you can never love without giving....
- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Real love is giving, it's impossible to love without giving.
- Guil Gacutan
To love truly is to sacrifice selflessly.
- Guil Gacutan
Godly love is giving sacrifically.
- Guil Gacutan
A person who says he is loving but not generous he is a great liar.
- Guil Gacutan
We are shaped and fashioned by how we love.
- Geothe
Love is life, and if you miss love, you miss life.
- Leo Buscaglia
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzo
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
Love is a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
- Jean de la Bruyere
Generosity and Benebolence
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
- Billy Graham
We cannot give to everyone but everyone can give to someone.
- Ronald Reagan
Giving is the highest level of living.
- John C. Maxwell
No one is honored by being stingy but many are being honored by generosity.
- Guil Gacutan
One thing that conquers the stingy is godly generosty.
- Guil Gacutan
Generosity unites and binds relationships.
- Guil Gacutan
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
- Jose Marti
The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: The pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.
- Charles Sporgeon
Make a space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, firm and joy. Without this you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
- Jonathan Sacks
Joy Quotes
If you cannot contribute spiritual joy to the world, you are not a true follower of the Lord.
- Guil Gacutan
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
- John Lennon
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Dr. Seuss
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God .
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- Nicholas Chamfort
Peace Quotes
God is the only source of real peace.
- Guil Gacutan
Right conduct, joy, contentment and hope result real peace.
- Guil Gacutan
Peaceful hearts are so needed in this troubled world.
- Guil Gacutan
Wealth, amusement, happiness without peace are not real success.
- Guil Gacutan
Bad and troubled heart cannot rest in peace.
- Guil Gacutan
Ungodly church goers whisper "peace, peace, peace" but deep inside there is no peace.
- Guil Gacutan
One thing that effectively reprimands and can stop war is peace.
- Guil Gacutan
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
- Dwight Eisenhower
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
Quotes of Wisdom
In all your getting get wisdom.
- Bible
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
- Fran Lebowitz
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- Ophra Winfrey
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
- Albert Einstein
The simple things are also the most extra ordinary things and only the wise can see them.
- Paolo Coelho
By three methods we can learn wisdom: first by reflection; which is noblest, second by imitation which is easiest; and third by experience, which is bitterest.
- Confucius
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.
- Elbert Hubbard
The purpose of this life is not to be happy, it is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference as you have lived and live well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is wise to know that a genius is not exempted from failures.
- Guil Gacutan
Integrity and Honesty Quotes
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
- Josh Billings
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
- George Bernard Shaw
Honesty is the best policy--when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do right thing so you have no guilt.
- Zig Ziglar
Humor Quote
Laughter is a medicine of the soul.
- Bible
Good humor is a life ingredient.
- Guil Gacutan
A person who speaks and acts humorously is also needed in the society.
- Guil Gacutan
A person able to quickly tell a good laughable story is in the right path having a joyful destiny.
- Guil Gacutan
A good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in the society.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A man is not poor if he can still laugh.
- Raymond Hitchcock
"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Laughing is much better than being boring.
- Guil Gacutan
Without humor in this world, all are victims of bad mood .
- Guil Gacutan
Quotes of Humility and Gratitude
Before honor is humility.
- Bible
Build me a son, O Lord who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
- Gen. Douglas McArthur
Without humility there can be no humanity.
- John Buchan
The humble conquers the high-minded through love and humility.
- Guil Gacutan
Those egocentric and high-minded envy and desire to kill the humble.
- Guil Gacutan
There can be no humility without appreciation and gratitude to the generous and helpful.
- Guil Gacutan
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
- William Arthurward
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow .
- Melody Beattie
When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.
- Steve Marboli
When friends falls down be the first to extend a hand.
- Steve Marboli
When you arise in the morning, think of what privilege is to be alive -- to breath, to think, to enjoy, to love -- then make that day count.
- Steve Marboli
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thanksgiving is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
- Henry Van Dyke
If we are not grateful everyday it means we are angry practicing cruelty.
- Guil Gacutan
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Bryan Tracy
Diligence Quotes
If all are diligent nobody can experience a shocking poverty.
- Guil Gacutan
With discipline, dedication and diligence, you will achieve the goal.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
- Miguel de Servantes Saavedra
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.
- Samuel Johnson
Many envy the success of others without thinking that success is the result of diligence.
- Guil Gacutan
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh how beautiful', and sitting in the shade.
- Rudyard Kipling
There are improved knowledges and technologies because of diligence .
- Guil Gacutan
Leadership (Quotes) and Things Needed in It
Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.
- Bernard Mongomery
Leardershnip is action not a position.
- John Maxwell
Leadership is influence.
- John Maxwell
Courage in a leader inspires commitment from followers.
- John Maxwell
Wisdom, diligence, courage, competence, compassion, patience, generosity and charisma are so needed in leadership.
- Guil Gacutan
The first person you lead is you. You cannot lead others if you don't know how to lead yourself.
- John Maxwell
Successful and right leadership is loving and God-fearing but brave leadership.
- Guil Gacutan
Commitment Quotes
Commitment is an act, not word.
- Jean Paul Starte
Cowardice Quotes
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Commitment Quotes
Commitment is an act, not word.
- Jean Paul Starte
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
- Peter F. Drucker
If you can't value a commitment made by someone else, your own commitments lose their value too.
- Ram Mohan
Love above all things, is a commitment to your choice.
- Rob Leano
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back always ineffectiveness.
- William Hutchison Murray
To fall in love and to commit yourself to love means you should make your loved the one thing you cherish the most.
- Kon Yoneda
Without commitment you cannot have depth in anything, wither its relationship, business or a hobby.
- Neil Strauss
Cowardice Quotes
- Thomas Jefferson
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
- Mahatma Gandhi
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
- Confucius
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
- Dolores Abarruri
Mixed Brainy Quotes
Knowledge is not measured from head to foot but from brain to mouth.
- Carlos P. Romulo
One man with courage is a majority.
- Thomas Jefferson
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Courage is grace under pressure.
- Ernest Hemingway
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.
- John Wooden
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
- Thomas Jefferson
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
- Thomas Jefferson
Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and we will conquer the world.
- Gen. Douglas McArthur
Duty, honor, country. Those three hollowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
- Gen. Douglas McArthur
Duty, honor, country--Those three hollowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be. They are your relying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
- Gen. Douglas McArthur
"The world is a constant conspiracy against the brave. It is the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and voice of your conscience on the other"
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul"
"Life is a lively process of becoming"
"There is no security on this earth there is only opportunity."
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul"
"Life is a lively process of becoming"
"There is no security on this earth there is only opportunity."
- Gen. Douglas McArtuhr
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Rosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Rosevelt
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
- Ellen De Generes
