Character is accurately reflected in one’s mental attitude.

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

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.

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.