Decide What's Important...

Not everything that counts can be counted, 

and not everything that can be counted counts.

~Albert Einstein

Integrity

What you do and what you say, 
should match 
in every single way.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

What's better than good?

Aim above morality. Be not simply good;

be good for something.

~Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817 and died there in 1862, at the age of forty-four.

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Learn from everything!

There is something to be learned 
from every experience, 
every challenge, 
every victory, 
and every defeat.  
Learn from everything.  

~Kim Franklin-Magana  

Virtue...

Virtue, 

like art, 

constantly deals with what is hard to do, 

and the harder the task the better the success.

~Aristotle

An exerpt from Wikipedia:
Virtue is a behavior showing a high moral standard and is a pattern of thought and behavior based on high moral standards. Virtues can be placed into a broader context of values. Each individual has a core of underlying values that contribute to his or her system of beliefs, ideas and/or opinions (see value in semiotics). Integrity in the application of a value ensures its continuity and this continuity separates a value from beliefs, opinion and ideas. In this context, a value (e.g., Truth or Equality or Creed) is the core from which we operate or react. Societies have values that are shared among many of the participants in that culture. An individual's values typically are largely, but not entirely, in agreement with his or her culture's values.
Individual virtues can be grouped into one of four categories of values:

• Ethics (virtue - vice, good - evil, moral - immoral - amoral, right - wrong)
• Aesthetics (unbalanced, pleasing)
• Doctrinal (political, ideological, religious or social beliefs and values)
• Innate/inborn