John D. Rockefeller

Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

Topic: Character, Leadership
Location: Capital Reef National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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I believe that every right implies responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation, every possession, a duty. — John D. Rockefeller

Opportunity Responsibility

The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit—a reputation and character. — John D. Rockefeller

Character Reputation

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts. — John D. Rockefeller

Networking

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. — John D. Rockefeller

Expectations Work

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

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Success Travel

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

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Courage Fear

More Quotes from Capital Reef National Park

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author. — Samuel Johnson

Appreciation compliment

Great hopes make great men. — Thomas Fuller

Hope Purpose

You cannot find peace by avoiding life. — Virginia Woolf

Life Peace

Misfortune

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. — Socrates

Change Habits Innovation Perception Purpose

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. — Thomas Jefferson

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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

› Ayn Rand

Character Honor Money Respect

Education has for its object the formation of character. — Herbert Spencer

Character Education

It's the empty can that makes the most noise. — Dutch Proverb

Character Confidence Conflict Self-esteem

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. — Thomas Paine

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To give the throne to another man would be easy; to find a man who shall benefit the kingdom is difficult. — Mencius

Character Leadership

Character

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare

Character Integrity Reputation Truth

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. — Irish Proverb

Character Learning Reputation

Men should be what they seem. — William Shakespeare

Character Leadership Truth

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character Solitude

Show me a man who keeps his house in hand, he’s fit for public authority. — Sophocles

Character Leadership

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered. — Merikare

Character Love Reputation

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character Leadership Life Reputation Respect Time

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

› George Washington

Character Honesty Leadership

He, of course, is a liar, but that doesn’t really matter because, if you know liars are liars, it comes to the same thing. — Agatha Christie

Character Honesty Reputation Truth

What a man misses in heaven is company. — Mark Twain

Character Friendship Reputation Self Solitude

Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach. — Arnold Glasow

Action Character Common Sense Communication Leadership Practice

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. — William Shakespeare

Character Communication Leadership Reputation

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing. — Abraham Lincoln

Character Reputation

Whether women are better than men I cannot say—but I can say they are certainly no worse. — Golda Meir

Character

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

› Niccolo Machiavelli

Character Integrity Leadership

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. — Mark Twain

Character Integrity Leadership

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. — Voltaire

Character Communication Listening Reputation

Character is power. — Booker T. Washington

Character Power

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. — Rumi

Action Leadership

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. — Abraham Lincoln

Character Justice Leadership Strength

False leaders think you need to be controlled by them. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Leadership

You reach your real height when you stand up for what you believe. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Belief Leadership

Stand up for your rhetoric or sit down. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Action Communication Leadership

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. — Ray Kroc

Leadership Quality

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. — Rochefoucauld

Accountability Conflict Leadership Negotiation Peace

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

› Marcus Aurelius

Choice Leadership Responsibility

Are you afraid of the good you might do? — Victor Hugo

Action Fear Leadership

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

› Frederick Douglass

Freedom Integrity Leadership

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

› C. S. Lewis

Adversity Character Leadership