Quotes of the day

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
– Japanese proverb

We should make a notch every day on our characters, as Robinson Crusoe on his stick. We must be at the helm at least once a day; we must feel the tiller-rope in our hands and know that if we sail, we steer.
– Henry David Thoreau, poet, naturalist (1817-1862)

Before you tell someone how good you are, you must tell him how bad you used to be.
– Semon Emil Knudson

So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now.
– Victor E. Frankl, Austrian neurologist (1905-1997)

We shouldn’t give up on our pursuit of perfection, but we also shouldn’t wait till we’re perfect to teach what we know and believe is right.
– Michael Josephson