Affirmations and Quotations

Character

Character is constructed in the midst of the tempests of the world.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

—Sir Francis Bacon

If you treat an individual is if he werer what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

—Andre Gide

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

—Benjamin Franklin

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

—Miguel de Cervantes

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

—Epictetus

Establishing trust with employees is a long-term propostion. You really can't trust somebody you barely know.

— Rod Fralick, Mercer Human Resource Consulting's Global Employee Research Director

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

—Anne Frank

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

—Edwin Percy Whipple