“Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Variant: Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991), p. 5
“Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Variant: Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.
“I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!”
Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
Interview 2006. http://youtube.com/watch?v=ohEz13V1Vhk&feature=related
Eric F. Wieschaus (1947) American geneticist
Attributed to Wieschaus in Together to Fly http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S19/55/05Q60/index.xml?section=science
“You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.”
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer
Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), To Ramona