Character counts.

Today, I am going to do a little something different...I am going to post nothing but quotes for my entry of the day...words of others, as I take comfort at times in knowing that there are others out there who share in my deepest beliefs and conduct. So here goes...

"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught."~J.C. Watts.

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."~William Shakespeare.

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."~David Star Jordan.

"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."~Alan Simpson.

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."~Oscar Wilde.

"Character is much easier kept than recovered."~Thomas Paine.

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." ~Buddha.

"Your life may be the only Bible some people read."~Author Unknown.

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out."~Thomas Babington Macaulay.

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."~Albert Einstein.

"Character is higher than intellect."~Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one."~Chinese Proverb.

"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done."~John Lubbock.

"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them." ~Aristotle.

"You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest." ~Robert Brault.

"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it."~Nathaniel Hawthorne.

"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.~Confucius.

"Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not a sin - just stupid.)~Robert A. Heinlein.

"If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it."~Immanuel Hermass von Fichte.

**"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."~Chester W. Nimitz--love this one!

**"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour."~Japanese Proverb.---AND this one.

"Men are not punished for their sins, but by them."~Elbert Hubbard.

"Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior."~Logan Pearsall Smith.

"If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare."~William Arnot.

"Every human being has... an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do."~Lydia M. Child.

"Every man over forty is responsible for his face."~Abraham Lincoln.

"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts."~Blaise Pascal.

"I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day."~Albert Camus.

"Take care that no one hates you justly."~Publilius Syrus.

The great minds behind these assorted expressions speak valid truth to my life. I internalize and believe in all of them. I neither wish to add-to or take-away anything from any of them.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone...
R