Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

Elton John - Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Myles Munroe - Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

Johann Hieronymus Schroder - It has been the cross which has revealed to good men that their goodness has not been good enough.

Jorge Luis Borges - Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Cheryl Strayed - This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities. You’ve earned the right to grow. You’re going to have to carry the water yourself.

Gene Roddenberry - The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

Omar Khayyam - Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Princess Diana - Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Les Brown - Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

Lawrence G. Lovasik - Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

George Will - Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Reba McEntire - For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

George Burns - Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

Alanis Morissette - We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.