Character
968 quotes: 34 by Keith Craft, 934 from other voices.
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- Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue: it is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
- Pure grit is that element of character which enables a man to clutch his aim with an iron grip, and keep the needle of his purpose pointing to the star of his hope.
- Put such a quality into your work that anyone who comes across anything you have ever done will see character in it, individuality in it, your trade-mark of superiority upon it.
- Real goodness proves itself to be such by a continual desire to be better.
- Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- Real toughness resides in being humble and wise enough to acknowledge your strengths and weaknesses.
- Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets and can be lost in a heartbeat.
- Remember that what you believe will depend very much upon what you are.
- Remember, the main business of life is not to do, but to become; an action itself has its finest and most enduring fruit in character.
- Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy.
- Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.Thomas PaineSourced
- Reputation, like health, is preserved and increased by the same means by which it is acquired.
- Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
- Resolved, Always to do that, which I shall wish I had done when I see others do it.
- Resolved, Never to do any thing, which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
- Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.
- Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.
- Search others for their virtues, and thyself for thy vices.
- Seek virtue rather than riches. You may be sure to acquire the first; but cannot promise for the latter. No one can rob you of the first without your consent; you may be deprived of the latter a hundred ways.
- Self-control is at the root of all the virtues. Let a man yield to his impulses and passions, and from that moment he gives up his moral freedom.
- Self-respect is the fruit of discipline, the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
- Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
- Self-respect, the corner-stone of all virtue.
- Self-will is so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit upon.
- Service is not just about doing good, it is about being good.
- Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
- Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
- Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
- Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
- Sincerity is impossible unless it pervades the whole being; and the pretence saps the very foundations of character.
- Sincerity is like travelling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
- Sincerity makes the least man to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
- Sir, you know courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
- Small excuses in self-discipline may seem trivial, but they are not. Employed on a small scale successfully we soon find that the word "No" can win large battles as well.
- Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.
- So behave that the odour of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
- Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
- Some people obtain fame, and others deserve it.
- Speak no evil of a man if you know it not of him for certain, and if you do know it, then ask yourself, "Why do I tell it?
- Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.