Character
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- Manners are the shadows of virtues.
- Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
- Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
- Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.
- Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
- Maturity begins to manifest itself when we feel that our concern for others is greater than our concern for ourselves.
- Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
- Maturity is perseverance – the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.
- Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.
- Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.
- Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
- Men are afraid of breaking down where they are strongest, but are seldom afraid of their weaknesses.
- Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
- Men are strong just in proportion as they have the ability to say NO, and stand by it.
- Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
- Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.
- Men have a touchstone whereby to try gold, but gold is the touchstone whereby to try men.
- Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into commonsense.
- Men of sterling character have the courage to speak the truth, even when it is unpopular.
- Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.
- Mental toughness is a lifestyle.
- Mind is the infallible weaver of destiny; thought is the thread, good and evil deeds are the warp and woof, and the web, woven upon the loom of life, is character.
- Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
- Money that is obtained without effort is spent without conscience.
- Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine.
- More are made good by exercitation than by nature.
- More kids are ruined by the behavior of their parents than by the amount they inherit. Children learn from your actions.
- Most men who have fallen have done so on the strongest side of their character.
- Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
- Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.
- My life is my argument.
- National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
- Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
- Neutral men are the devil's allies.
- Never be shaken, no matter what happens or what others may say. Never be flustered; never lose confidence. This is the way we should strive to live our lives. Being able to do so is a sign of genuine character.
- Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than any one can lie me out of it.