Character
968 quotes: 34 by Keith Craft, 934 from other voices.
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- The formative period of building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a sceptre more potent than that of kings and priests.
- The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
- The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.
- The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
- The great hope of society is individual character.
- The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
- The greatest influence for good in the world is by means of personal example rather than through admonition and exhortation.
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other people.
- The greatness of our God lies in the fact that He is both toughminded and tenderhearted.
- The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.
- The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
- The happy people and the successful people are those who go out of their way to reach and influence for good as many persons as they can.
- The highest accomplishment is to be a person of generosity, integrity, curiosity, humility, and wisdom.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- The life you want starts with the habits you repeat when no one’s watching.
- The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
- The man or the woman who is not a servant is one who accomplishes nothing.
- The man who would be benevolent is like the archer. The archer adjusts himself and then shoots. If he misses, he does not murmur against those who surpass himself. He simply turns round and seeks the cause of his failure in himself.
- The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
- The measure of a man is what he does with power.
- The measure of any man’s virtue is what he would do if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
- The more of the solid there is in a man, the less does he act the balloon.
- The more you do to make somebody else happy, the more happiness will you receive in turn.
- The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change.
- The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
- The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.
- The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.
- The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals, and have no hope of rising in their own esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
- The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
- The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of a good character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to the youth of his native land, is that of a shining, spotless example.
- The only argument the world will listen to now is the argument of personal holiness. It has heard all the rest and rejected them.
- The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- The only work that matters is the work that no one sees. It shows who you really are rather than who you say you are.
- The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
- The path of least resistance will never make you proud.
- The people are fashioned according to the example of their king; and edicts are of less power than the model which his life exhibits.
- The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
- The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
- The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.