Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-01-27 Jan 27, 2026Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.~ Étienne de la BoétieDo all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.~ John WesleyThe great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute -- he simply speaks and does what is right.~ Mencius Jan 26, 2026No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.~ Calvin CoolidgeFreedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.~ Edward EverettCount it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.~ Juvenal Jan 23, 2026It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.~ Andre GideHe that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.~ Charles Caleb ColtonIt is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.~ Dorothy Thompson Jan 22, 2026Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.~ Edmund BurkeTo be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.~ e. e. cummingsCharacter is doing what's right when nobody's looking.~ J. C. Watts, Jr. Jan 21, 2026It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.~ AeschylusCharacter is the accumulated confidence that individual men and women acquire from years of doing the right thing, over and over again, even when they don't feel like it. People with character understand that their lives are filled with events and choices that are significant, above all, not because of the short term success or failure of the search for money or position, but because the choices we make are actually making us into one kind of person, or another. Our life of choices is a life-long labor to make ourselves into a person who has begun to respond adequately to the awesome gift we received from God when He made us in His image.~ Alan KeyesCharacters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.~ Benjamin Disraeli Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print