Character
968 quotes: 34 by Keith Craft, 934 from other voices.
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- The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
- The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
- The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
- There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be thought so.
- There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
- There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.
- There is a high cost for low living.
- There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
- There is an old-fashioned word for the body of skills that emotional intelligence represents: character.
- There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness, and none more profitable.
- There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
- There is no eloquence without a man behind it.
- There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil.Sydney SmithSourced
- There is no one as strong as a person whose heart is always filled with gratitude.
- There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.
- There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world, either to get a good name or to supply the want of it.
- There is no present advantage in anything that may someday force you to break your word, or to lose respect for yourself, or to hate, suspect, or curse another, or to pretend to be other than what you are, or to lust after what you'd be ashamed to seek openly.
- There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question, than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
- There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.
- There is no stronger test of a man's real character than power and authority, exciting, as they do, every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
- There is no such sculpture as that of character.
- There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.
- There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.
- There never did, and never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to the exercise of resolute self-denial.
- There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.Horace BushnellCommonly attributed
- They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
- Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
- Think right, act right; it is what we think and do that makes us what we are.
- This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
- Those who complain most are most to be complained of.
- Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.
- Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.
- Thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.
- 'Tis no Sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
- To be a gentleman does not depend upon the tailor or the toilet. Good clothes are not good habits. A gentleman is just a gentle-man,--no more, no less; a diamond polished, that was first a diamond in the rough.
- To be a gentleman is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and possessing all those qualities to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner.
- To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.
- To be free is not to do nothing, but to be the sole arbiter of what we do and what we leave undone.
- To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.Leo TolstoySourced