The Story of 20 Toes

Hire character. Train skill. - Peter Schutz

A root is a flower that disdains fame. - Kahlil Gibran

Character, not circumstances, makes the man. - Booker T. Washington

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo Rosten

Habits form character, and character forms destiny. - James Allen

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

In Hollywood, a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. - Rita Rudner

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. - Joshua Reynolds

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. - Napoleon Hill

Marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever. - Quentin Crisp

While your circumstances are beyond your control, your character is not. - John C Maxwell

I was always a character actor: I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood. - Paul Newman

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship. - Sharon Stone

In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person. - Wilbert Donald Gough

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. - Irwin Corey

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. - Anne Taylor Fleming

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. - Joseph Joubert

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. - Henry Drummond

We seldom give each other advice - I think that's the success of 25 years of marriage. - Laura Bush

It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them. - J. Petit Senn

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. - Leonardo da Vinci

Every time I try to make my marriage more exciting, my wife finds out about it right away. - Bob Monkhouse

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. - Oscar Wilde

Character is that which reveals moral purposes, exposing the class of things man chooses or avoids. - Aristotle

You learn more from failure than from success. Don't let it stop you. Failure builds character. - Unknown

The best rule of thumb for character is to remember that if you can't be big, don't belittle. - Unknown

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. - Albert Einstein

What we value shapes our character and will ultimately define how we lead, or whether we can lead at all. - Unknown

Remember that your best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. - Unknown

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw. - Harvey Mackay

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost. When character is lost, all is lost. - Rev. Billy Graham

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do. - William Henry Channing

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success. - Ingrid Bergman

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. - A.W. Tozer

From a shy, timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles. - Anna Dostoevsky

Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open. - George Bernard Shaw

One advantage of marriage is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. - Judith Viorst

Fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb. - Miroslav Volf