STOP AND THINK - Charity is never lost; it may meet with ingratitude . . . yet it ever does a work of beauty and grace upon the heart of the giver. (Conyers Middleton, 18th century English clergyman) Middleton has added an important twist to the essential quality of...
STOP AND THINK - Don't be a dark cloud on a sunny day. (Television commercial) Do you know anyone like that? Things are going well; you’re happy and doing fine, and wham! Somebody comes along and ruins your day with their unhappiness, pouring out their misfortune or...
STOP AND THINK - To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolute marvelous feeling. (Barbara Walters, American broadcast journalist) We all want to succeed at something, to do really well, and to be recognized for our...
STOP AND THINK - Character is much easier kept than recovered. (Thomas Paine) We all stumble from time to time. It’s important that we forgive those who stumble and try to get back up. When the fall is because of moral or ethical failure, it is much more difficult to...
STOP AND THINK - The supreme test of goodness is not in the greater but in the smaller incidents of our character and practice. (F. B. STOP AND THINK - Meyer, 19th & 20th century British pastor and evangelist) The Bible says it’s “the little foxes that ruin the...
STOP AND THINK - Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away. (William Hershey Davis, 20th century seminary professor) Since you never have a second chance to make a first impression, it’s important to...
STOP AND THINK - Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. (Alphonse Karr, 19th century French critic, journalist, and novelist) The “character” we show is our reputation. The “character” we think we have...
STOP AND THINK - You can't dream yourself into character; you must hammer & forge yourself one. (James Froude, English biographer, historian, and editor) As much as we might like to think that by studying and trying mentally to develop good character, it just...
STOP AND THINK - What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control. (Thomas Edison, 19th-20th century American inventor) Is Edison saying that a creative inventor would naturally see that his creations were put always and only to moral purposes by ethical...
STOP AND THINK - The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he’s born. (William R. Inge, 19th-20th century English author and Anglican priest) If poverty is generational, so can moral integrity and character be. What Inge...
STOP AND THINK - The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education. (Martin Luther King Jr.) Education is certainly an essential element in our growth and maturity....
STOP AND THINK - Men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. (Edmund Burke, 18th century Irish statesman and philosopher) When we do not have control of ourselves and become passionate beyond reason, we easily become the victims of our...