"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." ― Phillips Brooks Topic(s): Great More From Phillips Brooks "Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious." "Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." "Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there." More In Great "The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad."― Thomas Dolby "Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds."― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain."― F. Scott Fitzgerald