Character
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- A farm is not a place for growing corn, it is a place for growing character, and a man has no character except that which is developed by his life and thought.
- A fault which humbles a man is of more use to him than a good action which puffs him up with pride.
- A gentleman means simply this: a generous person; one who has learned to be kind; one who has learned to think not of himself first, but of the happiness and welfare of others.
- A good character, good habits, and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill-luck that fools ever dreamed of.
- A good character is a coat of triple steel, giving security to the wearer, protection to the oppressed, and inspiring the oppressor with awe.
- A good character is a precious thing, above rubies, gold, crowns, or kingdoms, and the work of making it is the noblest labor on earth.
- A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.Charles H. SpurgeonCommonly attributed
- A good example has twice the value of good advice.
- A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
- A good heart will rather lie low in the dust, than rise to the greatest height by wickedness.
- A good inclination is only the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will.
- A good man does good merely by living.
- A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.
- A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
- A good name is better than riches.
- A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.
- A great business is seldom if ever built up, except on lines of the strictest integrity.
- A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.
- A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
- A great soul is above insult, injustice, grief, and mockery.
- A holy life is a voice; it speaks when the tongue is silent, and is either a constant attraction or a perpetual reproof.
- A leader leads by example, not by force.
- A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He can not touch bottom at all.
- A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
- A man is known by the company he keeps.
- A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
- A man may have a large brain and a good mind, strong faculties, and brilliant talents, and yet he is not a great man unless he uses all these in a great way.
- A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
- A man should first think of his character and then of his condition. Character will draw after it condition.
- A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.
- A man who is known to be strictly honest, may be ever so poor, but he has the purses of all the community at his disposal--for all know that if he promises to return what he borrows, he will never disappoint them.
- A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. Character is like bells which ring out sweet music, and which, when touched accidentally even, resound with sweet music.
- A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
- A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.
- A man's character is his fate.
- A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
- A man's life is always more forcible than his speech; when men take stock of him they reckon his deeds as pounds and his words as pence.
- A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds: therefore let him seasonably water the one and destroy the other.
- A man's own good-breeding is the best security against other people's ill-manners.