Character Quotations
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[Page 3]It is of utmost importance to coach or play this game with great character. What you do on the basketball court will inevitably carry over to what you do in life.
"Principle can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true."
-- Edward R. Lyman"Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to stay there."
-- William Blake"Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory."
-- F.W. Faber"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us."
-- Benjamin FranklinHard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.
"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
-- Freya Stark"Leadership is the potent combination of character and strategy. If you must be without one, be without strategy."
-- Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf"You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
-- John Wooden"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."
-- Booker T. Washington"Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved."
-- Michel de Montaigne"If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source."
-- the Dhammapada"Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open."
-- Elmer G. Letterman"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there."
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus"It makes no difference how many baskets you make ... only what you make of yourself."
-- Paul 'Tony' Hinkle"They're only truly great who are truly good."
-- George Chapman"The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can."
-- John Donne"He that lies with the dogs, riseth with the fleas."
-- George HerbertCheck out the other quotation categories:
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