1. Your reputation is what others think of you; your character is what you are.

2. Reputation is built-in spoons that are lost in buckets.

3. It may take years to grow it and a moment to cut it.

4. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound your honour.

5. Strength of character is forged through enduring hardship and maintaining composure in the face of difficulties.

6. Strong people do not have attitudes; they have standards.

7. Keep your standards high, and refrain from settling for something because it is available.

8. Be nice first to people for no reason. Be respectful by treating others with respect.

9. Be humble and never think you are better than anyone else.

10. Never look down on someone unless you are helping them up. Even if you helped them, do not look down on them.

11. Always help someone. You might be the only one who does.

12. Humanity is more excellent than status.

13. If you have to choose between being kind and being right, choose to be kind, and you will always be correct.

14. Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.

15. Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

16. For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

17. Everyone is rich, some in money and some in character.

18. A man’s character is his fate.

19. Difficulties reveal the depth of a person’s character.

20. Struggle builds character. Do not try to skip it.

21. Hard times come to test you, not to kill you.

22. A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

23. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

24. Darkness is the only absence of light. Turn on a light, and it banishes the darkness.