Character
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- Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another.
- Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don’t whine; don’t complain; don’t make excuses.
- Never mind the future: be what you ought to be; the rest is God's affair.
- Never rob your character to enrich your pocket.
- Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head.
- Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you must have dirty hands.
- No amount of honesty will avail if he is not also brave and wise.
- No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.Ralph Waldo EmersonSourced
- No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.
- No man ever did a designed injury to another, without doing a greater to himself.
- No man is good but as he wishes the good of others.
- No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
- No man is wise enough or good enough to be intrusted with unlimited power.
- No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being the better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
- No matter how educated, talented or rich you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all.
- No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.
- No, my dear friend, there is but one road, the shortest, safest, best, and it is simply this: In whatsoever you desire to be deemed good, endeavour to be good.XenophonSourced
- No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
- No worth, known or unknown, can die even on this earth.
- Nobody knows who may be listening; say nothing which you would not wish put in the daily paper.
- Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
- Not education, but character, is man’s greatest need and man’s greatest safeguard.
- Not money, not position, but power is what we want; and character is greater than any occupation or profession.
- Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
- Nothing can compensate for the loss of hope in a man: it entirely changes the character.
- Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good and partaking of God's holiness.
- Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
- Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
- Nothing is rarer than real goodness.
- Nothing is so infectious as example.
- Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
- Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
- Now the noblest influence on earth is that exerted on character; and he who puts forth this, does a great work, no matter how narrow or obscure his sphere.
- Now we expect every student who goes out from Tuskegee to be, not the man who tries to see how little he can do, or the average man who proposes to do merely his duty, but the man above the average, who will do more than his duty.Booker T. WashingtonSourced
- Occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.Thomas à KempisCommonly attributed
- Of all the evil spirits abroad in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
- Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.Henry ClaySourced
- Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
- One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
- One example is worth a thousand arguments.