Character
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- The question is not who is the most learned, but who is the best.
- The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
- The scholar without good-breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable.
- The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produces amendment; and the greatest is insufficient, if it does not.
- The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
- The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
- The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
- The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.
- The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.
- The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.Blaise PascalSourced
- The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be.
- The student who lays the bricks must learn to lay each brick as well as it is possible for him to lay it, and then do still better work on the morrow.
- The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing.
- The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
- The tidal waves of tyranny always begin as tiny ripples of indifference.
- The time is always right to do what’s right.
- The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.
- The true man is revealed in difficult times.
- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- The true road to respect is through merit, and if industry accompany merit the path becomes shorter.
- The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
- The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.
- The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
- The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
- The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.
- The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.
- The virtue of prosperity is temperance, but the virtue of adversity is fortitude; and the last is the more sublime attainment.
- The vulgar estimate themselves by what they do; the noble by what they are.
- The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity—even under the most difficult circumstances—to add a deeper meaning to his life.
- The way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it, and it will outrun you.
- The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
- The way we do small things determines the way we do EVERYTHING
- The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.
- The weak make others feel inferior. The strong make others feel equal.
- The wealth of a country is in its good men and women, and in nothing else.
- The work may be done in a thousand different ways—with the brain or the hands, in the study, the field, or the workshop—if it is honest work, honestly done and well worth doing, that is all we have a right to ask.