This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
John Naber, fully John Phillips Naber
It’s the tough decisions that really test our character, for character is revealed when the price of doing the right thing is more than we want to pay.
To be worth anything, character must be capable of standing firm upon its feet in the world of daily work, temptation, and trial.
Character | Temptation | Work | World | Worth |
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
In deciding what course of action is moral, you should act as if there were no God. You should act as if there were no threat of earthly punishment or reward. You should be a person of good character because it is right to be such a person.
Action | Character | God | Good | Punishment | Reward | Right |
The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Nancy Moser, born Nancy Etta Lynette Jeffrey
Characters live to be noticed. People with character notice how they live.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Character | Education | Intelligence |