Character
968 quotes: 34 by Keith Craft, 934 from other voices.
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- Who rises from Prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
- Who you spend time with is who you become.
- Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
- Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.
- Winners do what is right and then they feel good. Whiners want to feel good before they do what is right. Are you a winner or a whiner?
- Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
- Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.David Starr JordanSourced
- With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
- Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.
- Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
- WORK is one of the best educators of practical character.
- Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are and your reputation is what others think you are.
- Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- You all know that there is no genuine, praiseworthy success in life if you are not honest, truthful, fair-dealing.
- You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.
- You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
- You are the manifestation of every decision you’ve ever made. A decision today determines who you are tomorrow.
- You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
- You can help your fellow-men: you must help your fellow-men; but the only way you can help them is by being the noblest and the best man that it is possible for you to be.
- You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.
- You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
- You cannot afford to learn to speak anything but the absolute truth.
- You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.
- You cannot learn to walk without walking; no more can you learn to do good without trying to do good.
- You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
- You can’t teach drive. You can’t teach competitiveness. You can’t teach integrity. You can’t teach resourcefulness. Hire traits you can’t teach.
- You learn a lot about someone by what they choose to do when no one is watching.
- You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
- You may go out and make great speeches, you may write books or addresses which are great literature, but unless you have character behind what you say and write, it will amount to nothing; it will all go to the winds.Booker T. WashingtonSourced
- You may have God in your character without having God in your career.
- You must be respectable, if you will be respected.
- You must rouse in men a consciousness of their own prudence and strength, if you would raise their character.
- You should not lead one life in private and another in public.
- You should remain in school until you get to the point where you feel that you do not know anything, where you feel that you are willing to learn from any one who can teach you.
- You think you are going to be made great by an office, but remember that if you are not great before you get the office, you won’t be great when you secure it.
- You will earn the respect of all men if you begin by earning the respect of yourself.
- You will find it less easy to uproot faults, than to choke them by gaining virtues.
- Young people need models, not critics.
- Your actions reveal how badly you want something.