Principles - Character Ethic

"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character." -- John Morley, 1838-1923, Viscount of Blackburn

"If you are not working on your ideas each day, you're working on someone else's." -- Marjorie Blanchard

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier --- not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has changed." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -- Aristotle

"Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses." -- Proverbs 27:6 (NIV)

"History is the version of events that people have agreed upon." -- Napoleon

"Discernment is getting the true picture, whatever it is." -- Sir Winston Churchill

"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner." -- English Proverb

"Change brings opportunities when people have been planning for it, are ready for it, and have just the thing in mind to do when the new state comes into being." -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

"True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome." -- Walter Anderson