This week's character quotes for penmanship copywork

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character s a byproduct, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish pig.
~~~Woodrow Wilson,28th American President


The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops- no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
~~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them- that it was a vain endeavor?
~~~Henry David Thoreau

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
~~~Unknown

Those who are free from resentful thoughts surely find peace.
~~~Buddha

No man is more cheated than a selfish man.
~~~Henry Beecher

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
~~~Marcus Aurelius