Character
968 quotes: 34 by Keith Craft, 934 from other voices.
Other voices on Character
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
- We can often do more for other men by correcting our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
- We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.
- We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them, because we hate them.
- We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.
- We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
- We know the law of human nature: acts produce habits, habits breed dispositions, dispositions form the will, and the rightly-formed will is character.
- We must become good before we can make them good, and wise before we can make them wise.
- We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
- We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.
- We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
- We should not, like sheep, follow the herd of creatures in front of us, making our way where others go, not where we ought to go.
- We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one’s own feet.
- Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.
- What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how others regard him.
- What is done for effect, is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love, is felt to be done for love.
- What is thy art? To be good.
- What the superior man seeks, is in himself. What the mean man seeks, is in others.
- What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
- What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
- What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
- What we know matters but who we are matters more.
- What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are.
- What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become.
- What you believe is more important than what you possess. What you live is more lasting than what you profess. Whom you inspire is more significant than whom you impress.
- What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself.
- What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
- Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man’s character.
- When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
- When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart.
- When God measures men in the next world, he will not put the tape about their head, he will put it about their heart.
- When in doubt, tell the truth.
- When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
- When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
- When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
- Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
- Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place; and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
- While cheerfulness of disposition is a great source of enjoyment in life, it is also a great safeguard of character.