Sharon Salzberg Quotes

I have to say that the most important thing Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together.

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

Power won't change me.

Everybody has a hero and a villain within themselves. So it depends upon you to be a hero or a villain. If you show humanity, it will give you satisfaction.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

Just stay true to yourself and true to wut you believe.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I've always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

People can say or think whatever they want... so in my reality, it's kind of irrelevant. I'm always the kind of person that does the right thing and keeps my side of the street clean.

In any situation, I'm going to be good.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.

Villains have to be passionate enough to say to themselves, 'I will do anything.' It's a certain type of personality that in life, for me, is not the way I live. Because you can't live in a society that way.