Patsy Cline

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

Topic: Character, Self, Speech

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Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others. — Francis Bacon

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

Character Love Reputation

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. Thats why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are. — Maya Angelou

Awareness Character Networking

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

Character Choice Decision

To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

› Theodore Roosevelt

Character Leadership

Character is accurately reflected in one’s mental attitude. — Napoleon Hill

Attitude Character

That which leaks cannot stay full. — African Proverb

Accountability Character Integrity

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. — Orison Swett Marden

Character Confidence Courage Failure Respect Self-esteem

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

› Lucretius

Adversity Character Misfortune Strength

Character Leadership Love Society

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

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

Character Friendship Reputation Self Solitude

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. — English Proverb

Character Leadership

Blessed be the man who knows his power and abstains from abusing it. — Egyptian Proverb

Character Leadership Power

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we appear to be. — Socrates

Character Honor Leadership Reputation Success

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified. — Mohandas Gandhi

Character Money

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

› Martin Luther King Jr.

Character Leadership

He is noble who performs noble deeds. — Dutch Proverb

Character Honor Integrity Leadership

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

› Martin Luther King Jr.

Action Character Leadership

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

Character Reputation

One characteristic of a winner is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project. — Denis Waitley

Character Leadership Learning

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. — Henry Ford

Character Integrity Quality

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

Character Communication Listening Reputation

Character is higher than intellect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character Intelligence

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. — Anwar Sadat

Self Self-esteem

Trust yourself: every heart vibrates the same iron string. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence Self Self-esteem Trust

One can have no surrender or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. — Leonardo da Vinci

Goals Purpose Self

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

› Sun Tzu

Fear Leadership Self

Real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self. — Anwar Sadat

Self Success Victory

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

› Ann Landers

Humor Self

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

› Isaac Newton

Discovery Purpose Self Truth

The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. — John Ruskin

Goals Self Work

I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself. — Michel de Montaigne

Acceptance Confidence Self Self-esteem

If you stumble more than once over the same stump, you have no one to blame but yourself. — Italian Proverb

Accountability Self

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. — Oscar Wilde

Integrity Life Self

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

› Carl Jung

Self Soul

If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world. — Dalai Lama

Anger Peace Practice Self

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius

Gratitude Peace Self

The person who knows himself and his opponent will be invincible. — Korean Proverb

Awareness Conflict Peace Persuasion Self

Within the book and volume of my brain. — William Shakespeare

Education Self Solitude Thinking

When in doubt, be yourself. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Confidence Self

There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. — George Eliot

Power Self Society Strength

Never doubt your efforts—one person can make an enormous difference. — Nelson Mandela

Confidence Leadership Self Self-esteem

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

› Victor Hugo

Conviction Happiness Love Self

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

› Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge Learning Self

You are who you decide to be. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Decision Self

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

› Lao-tzu

Leadership Self

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

› Friedrich Nietzsche

Self

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

› G. K Chesterton

Liberty Speech

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. — Horace

Communication Public Speaking Speech

First have something to say that is worth hearing and the rest will take care of itself. — Paul Harvey

Speech

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. — Blaise Pascal

Action Public Speaking Reputation Speech

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

› Sophocles

Honesty Honor Speech Truth

A scared thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. — Plutarch

Public Speaking Speech

Listening taught you how to speak. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Example Listening Speech

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed. — Margaret Fuller

Communication Public Speaking Speech

Understanding a question is half an answer.

› Socrates

Communication Listening Public Speaking Speech Thinking

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Affirmation Choice Communication Goals Purpose Self Self-esteem Speech Vision

Your tongue is your power. Preserve it, it will preserve you. Betray it, it will betray you. — African Proverb

Communication Power Speech

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he. — Publilius Syrus

Communication Perception Speech

Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking. — African Proverb

Communication Speech

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. — Michel de Montaigne

Speech Thinking

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

› Benedict Spinoza

Communication Happiness Power Speech