“We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.”

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.

If you have character, that means the guy you are dealing with can trust you.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

The men trust in you, have faith in you, and they obey, no questions asked. That’s character in a nutshell.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Your judgement judges you and defines you.

I’ve always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.

You know, I’m a pretty mellow guy. I’m pretty easy-going. I see everyone’s perspective.