Life is a journey, not a destination. Happiness is not "there" but here, not "tomorrow" but today. Sidney Greenberg More Quotes by Sidney Greenberg More Quotes From Sidney Greenberg Character is distilled out of our daily confrontation with temptation, out of our regular response to the call of duty. It is formed as we learn to cherish principles and to submit to self-discipline. Character is the sum total of all the little decisions, the small deeds, the daily reactions to the choices that confront us. Character is not obtained instantly. We have to mold and hammer and forge ourselves into character. It is a distant goal to which there is no shortcut. Sidney Greenberg discipline self character Among the humble and great alike, those who achieve success do so not because fate and circumstance are especially kind to them. Often the reverse is true. They succeed because they do not whine over their fate but take whatever has been given to them and go on to make the most of their best. Sidney Greenberg fate humble success We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no man ever won a gamble with his own conscience. Even should he think he has beaten his conscience into submission, his misdeeds still leave their mark upon him. Anyone who gambles against this fact has already lost his gamble. Sidney Greenberg mercy-of-god men thinking For all the unkind things said about envy, it would only be fair to acknowledge that not all envy is destructive. If envy leads us to work hard and to improve our skills, it becomes a stimulant to self-improvement. God has given us no quality that cannot be used for good. Sidney Greenberg hard-work skills self Religion should not only comfort us when we are disturbed; it should also disturb us when we are comfortable. Sidney Greenberg disturbed should comfort War determines not who is right but who is left. Sidney Greenberg left determine war A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. Sidney Greenberg
