Character
968 quotes: 34 by Keith Craft, 934 from other voices.
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- Stay true in the dark and humble in the spotlight.
- Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from indomitable will.
- Strength of character consists of two things,--power of will and power of self-restraint.
- Strict honesty, not only lies at the foundation of all success in life (financially), but in every other respect.
- Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
- Success in that sphere of life is achieved less by talent than by temper, less by genius than by character.
- Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.
- Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
- [T]he parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand and pulling down with the other.
- Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.
- Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.
- Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
- Talents are nurtured best in solitude, but character on life's tempestuous sea.
- Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are; if I know what it is with which you occupy yourself, I know what you may become.
- That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
- That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- The ability to say No, to refrain from going with the crowd, to decline to go down-stream, is more than any other one thing in this life, the mark of a strong character.
- The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals.
- The best advertisement of a workshop is first-class work. The strongest attraction to Christianity is a well-made Christian character.
- The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity.
- The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.
- The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
- The best sort of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury.
- The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like that.
- The best way to identify a great friend is how they react when you win.
- The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no man can tell what becomes of his influence and example, that roll away from him, and go beyond his ken on their perilous mission.
- The capacity of sorrow belongs to our grandeur; and the loftiest of our race are those who have had the profoundest grief, because they have had the profoundest sympathies.
- The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
- The clearest indication of character is what people find laughable.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSourced
- The courage of today becomes the character of tomorrow.
- The deceitful charms of prosperity destroy more souls than all the scourges of adversity.
- The deeds of a person become his life, become his fate. This is the law of our life.
- The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
- The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.
- The discipline of desire is the backbone of character.
- The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.
- The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
- The first proof of a man's incapacity for anything is his endeavouring to fix the stigma of failure upon others.