#character

You're still alive. That means you're winning. ↗

— Rachel Cotterill

#life-and-death #death

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. ↗

— Richard Bach

#character #dream #dreams

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#leadership #talent #leadership

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ↗

— Helen Keller

#experience

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#experience #meat #experience

Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or retired and thus are no longer around, with memories and character formed by that previous experience, to warn people not to be irresponsible. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#finance #memory #recession #responsibility #experience

What if God doesn’t keep his promises? ↗

— K Howard Joslin

#faith #faithfulness #god #promises #faith

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi. ↗

— George Catlin

#character #different #enter #felt #manner

A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH I do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold. And I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance. You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#spoken-from-the-main-character #death

Still, I never heard him say that he hated or wanted to hurt or kill someone for all the horrific things that had been happening to him and his family. ↗

— Savo Heleta

#dignity #humanity #integrity #not-my-turn-to-die #righteousness