Character
968 quotes: 34 by Keith Craft, 934 from other voices.
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- One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
- One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.
- One monster there is in this world: the idle man.
- One of the marks of a gentleman is his refusal to make an issue out of every difference of opinion.
- One of the sure signs of maturity is the ability to rise to the point of self criticism.
- One vicious habit each year rooted out, in time might make the worst man good.
- One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
- Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
- Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
- Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.Wilhelm von HumboldtCommonly attributed
- Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.
- Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.
- Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choice of good or evil we have made through life.John Cunningham GeikieCommonly attributed
- Our character is our will; for what we will we are.Henry Edward ManningSourced
- Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.
- Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
- Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
- Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.
- Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.
- Our yesterdays follow us; they constitute our life, and they give character and force and meaning to our present deeds.
- Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire; and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gate of heaven.
- Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
- Pay respect that you may be respected, and know that to be esteemed you must show esteem.
- Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.
- Perfect virtue is to do unwitnessed what we should be capable of doing before all the world.
- Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age.Albert EinsteinSourced
- Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
- Personality is how you respond on a typical day, character is how you show up on a hard day.Adam GrantCommonly attributed
- Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
- Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
- Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, no man good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power.
- Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
- Preaching is of much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument that you can offer to the sceptic.
- Precept is instruction written in the sand, the tide flows over it and the record is gone. Example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.
- Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
- Pride is the problem, humility is the answer.
- Prosperity doth best discover vice, and adversity doth best discover virtue.