What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us
William Morrow

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body
Cicero

Great men are they who see that spiritual force is stronger than any material force
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to fight for good than to fail at the ill.
Lord Alfred Tennyson

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it
Plato

Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of man.
Disraeli

A noble aim, faithfully kept, is as a noble deed
William Wordsworth

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won
Winston Churchill

I like the man who faces what he must; who fights the daily battle without fear, sees his hope fail, yet keeps unfaltering trust.
Sarah Knowles Bolton

Success grows out of struggles to overcome difficulties
Smiles

The talent of success is nothing more than doing well whatever you do without a thought for fame.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it
David Starr Jordan

Only they who fulfill their duty in everyday matters will fulfill them on great occasions
C. Kingsley

Great tasks can be trusted with those who neither grow angry at any unexpected violence, nor become surprised at any shocking accidents, nor bother to argue in defense against serious slanders.
Tang Pin

The greatest danger in deceiving others is that one will surely end by deceiving one’s self
Eleonora Duse

He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Kind hearts are the gardens; kind thoughts are the roots; kind words are the flowers, kind deeds are the fruits
Anonymous

A loving heart is the true wisdom
Charles Dickens

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth
Earl of Shaftsbury

Nothing is really beautiful but truth
Nicholas Boileau

No beauty is like the beauty of the mind
Cooke

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, instruments of the wise
German Proverb

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of
Benjamin Franklin

The more virtue the more liberty
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lid of the mind’s eye to reach its oracles
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise men love truth, whereas fools shun it.
English Proverb

When anger blinds the mind, truth disappears
German Proverb

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within the hear say of little children tends towards the formation of their character
Hosea Ballou

When an archer misses the mark he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull’s eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim; improve yourself.
Forbes Magazine

In working evil for another, a man words evil for himself
Hesiod
Thought is the seed of action
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy is the man who can endure with equanimity the highest and the lowest fortune
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures
Bowee

A word or a nod from the good has more might than the eloquent speeches of others
Plutarch

Love between man and woman, like any other love, is a relationship in spiritual greatness. It is a love generous in offering and generous in receiving. Love nourishes but does not possess; in love we affirm one another but do not dominate. To love is not to win or lose, but to help and be helped.
Robert Raynolds

Far more important than any mere dictum of etiquette is the fundamental code of honour, without strict observance of which no man, no matter how “polished” can be considered a gentle man. The honour of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendant of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice - - or he is not a gentleman.
Emily Post

Gentlemanliness, being another word for intense humanity
James Russell Lowell

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady, as distinguished from the veneered article which commonly goes by that name.
Thomas Henry Huxley

The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He not only can forgive, he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character which imparts sufficient strength to let the past be but the past. A true man of honour feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
Robert E. Lee

A gentleman is one who thinks more of other people’s feelings than his own rights; and more of other people’s rights than his own feelings
Matthew Henry Buckham

A man can never be a true gentleman in manner until he is a true gentleman at heart.
Charles Dickens

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
Luiqi Pirandello

There is no such thing as being a gentleman at important moments; it is at unimportant moments that a man is a gentleman. At important moments he ought to be something better.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

He is a gentleman, because his nature is kind and affable to every creature.
Richard Barnfield

Gentlemen have to learn that it is no part of their duty of privilege to live on other people’s toil; that there is no degradation in the hardest manual or the humblest servile labour, when it is honest.
John Ruskin

To be a gentleman is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise and possessing all those qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner.
William Makepeace Thackeray