You can never know enough about your characters.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

The young feel tired at the end of an action the old at the beginning.

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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

Men argue. Nature acts.

It doesn't really matter how you feel about your character, it just matters what you do with it.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act you have neglected much and most of all yourself.

If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive.

I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.

I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.