“Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday, you will be a real boy.” - Blue Fairy from Pinocchio

“No one heals himself by wounding another.” 

~ St. Ambrose of Milan

‎"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." 

~ Norman Vincent Peale

"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention."

~ John Burroughs

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”

~ Muhammad Ali

"Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student."

~ George Iles

"A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

quotation tattoo

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

~Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance, 1893

spoken by the character Lord Illingworth

"Humility doesn’t mean you think less of yourself, but that you think of yourself less."

~ Max Lucado
Facing Your Giants

Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for.

~ Unknown

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer.

~ Mark Twain

(A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)