Character
968 quotes: 34 by Keith Craft, 934 from other voices.
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- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
- It’s easy to cheer for people when they’re up. A better test of character is whether you keep rooting for them when they’re down. Don’t be a fair-weather fan of people. They need support more when they’re struggling than when they’re succeeding.
- It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
- It’s our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others.
- It's so much easier to do good than to be good.
- Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.
- Just as a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
- Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined.
- Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
- Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.
- Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
- Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
- Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
- Know all there is to be known about the position you occupy, but ever feel that there is more for you to learn.
- Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
- Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.
- Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee: it springs out of the most retired and inmost part of us.
- Late repentance is seldom true, but true repentance is never too late.
- Learn to hide your need and show your skill.
- Let a man sanctify the Lord God in his heart and he can thereafter do no common act.
- Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will daily grow more and more right. It is at the bottom of the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.
- Let deeds match words.
- Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
- Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me. Even by the falling of water-drops a water-pot is filled; the wise man becomes full of good, even if he gather it little by little.
- Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
- Let us not say, Every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, Every man is the architect of his own character.
- Let your life be your argument.
- Let your religion be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine. A lighthouse sounds no drum, it beats no gong; yet, far over the waters, its friendly light is seen by the mariner.
- Live with persons of elevated characters, and you will feel lifted and lighted up in them: "Live with wolves," says the Spanish proverb, "and you will learn to howl.
- Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives.
- Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.
- Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
- Loyalty is the desire to defend someone when they are not there to defend themselves.
- Make good on all your mistakes, and don't make excuses—apologize. Stand behind everything you do.
- Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.
- Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
- Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
- Man is a thought-being, and his life and character are determined by the thoughts in which he habitually dwells.
- Manners are the ornament of action.