Law of Emotion

Character is perfectly educated will. - Novalis

Be polite to all, but intimate with few. - Thomas Jefferson

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

Character is much easier kept than recovered. - Thomas Paine

Sports do not build character; they reveal it. - John Wooden

Happiness is not the end of life; character is. - Henry Ward Beecher

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. - John Wooden

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. - Seneca

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult. - Leo Tolstoy

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. - Herbert Hoover

Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone. - Cyrus A. Bartol

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

Character is the root of the tree; conduct, the fruit it bears. - E.M. Bounds

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. - Bernard Baruch

Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. - Faith Baldwin

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. - Truman Capote

The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune. - Amelia Earhart

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic. - Drew Barrymore

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. - Erma Bombeck

John Wooden was a hall of fame character long before he was a hall of fame coach. - John C Maxwell

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard

A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character. - Tesio

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word. - Lord Chesterfield

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. - Joan Baez

It is important to understand that it is a prayer life that builds character that honours God. - Ravi Zacharias

If a man's character is to be abused, there's nobody like a relative to do the business. - Alexander Pope

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. - Buddha

Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be thankful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. - Harvey Mackay

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. - Nicholas Sparks

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results. Bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results. - James Allen

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. - Antonin Scalia

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

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful. - Anacharsis

Some men's ambition is art, some men's ambition is fame, some men's ambition is gold. My ambition is the souls of men. - William Booth

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

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a 'nervous system', to coordinate its actions. - Bill Gates

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right path, the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. - Epicurus

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. - Groucho Marx