May 22nd, 2018 | Updated on June 30th, 2022
1. The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice.Politics without principle. From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.-Frederick Lewis Donaldson
2. I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.-Charlotte Bronte
3. The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.-Abigail Van Buren
4. Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.-Maya Angelou
5. Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.-August Wilson
6. Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.-Kahlil Gibran
7. People come, people go they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.-Nicholas Sparks
8. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.-Abraham Lincoln
9. I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. -Joss Whedon
10. You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.-Maya Angelou
11. Sometimes, when I have to do something I don’t want to do, I pretend I’m a character from a book. It’s easier to know what they would do.-Cassandra Clare
12. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.-Martin Luther King Jr.
13. Whatever you are physically…male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy–all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.-Cassandra Clare
14. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters-Albert Einstein
