Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
-Benjamin Franklin

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
-Helen Keller

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
-Socrates

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles.   It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
~Author Unknown

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.
~Author Unknown

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.
~Lee Mildon

A smile confuses an approaching frown.
~Author Unknown

Smiling is infectious,
You can catch it like the flu.
Someone smiled at me today,
And I started smiling too.
~Author Unknown

 

A man’s greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

—Thomas Watson

 

When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.

—Samuel Rutherford

“Evil continues when good people do nothing.”
-Jane Elliot

Character is what you are in the dark.
-D.L. Moody

It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
-Henri Frederic Amiel

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
-Thomas MacAulay

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
-Albert Einstein.

“Works don’t make a man good, but a good man does good works.”
-Martin Luther

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
-Albert Einstein.

Have more than thou showest;
Speak less than thou knowest.
-William Shakespeare.

TAKE TIME
To Think. It is the source of power.
To Play. It is the secret of perpetual youth.
To Read. It is the fountain of wisdom.
To Pray. It is the greatest power on earth.
To Love and Be Loved. It is a God-given privilege.
To be Friendly. It is the road to happiness.

REPUTATION AND CHARACTER

The circumstances amid which you live determine your reputation; the truth you believe determines your character.
Reputation is what you are supposed to be; charaacter is what you are.
Reputation is the photograph; character is the face.
Reputation comes over one from without; character grows up from within.
Reputation is what you have when you come to a new comunity; character is what you have when you go away.
Your reputation is learned in an hour; your character is built in a lifetime.
Reputation grows like a mushroom; character grows like the oak.
A single newspaper report gives you your reputation, a life of toil gives you your character.
Reputation makes you rich or makes you poor; character makes you happy or makes you miserable.
Reputation is what men say about you on your tombstone; character is what the angels say about you before the throne of God.

- William Hersey Davis

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”
-W. Clement Stone

“Integrity has no need of rules.”
- Albert Camus

“Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.”
-Paul Wellstone