Character
968 quotes: 34 by Keith Craft, 934 from other voices.
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- Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
- Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
- Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features; any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
- Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.
- Applause is the spur of noble minds, the aim and end of weak ones.
- As a mountain of rock is unshaken by wind, so also, the wise are unperturbed by blame or by praise.
- As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they do.
- As the Zen Buddhist saying goes, how you do anything is how you do everything.
- Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company.
- Authenticity without boundaries is careless. Authenticity without empathy is selfish.
- Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality.
- Bad men excuse their faults; good men will leave them.
- Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
- Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.
- Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
- Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Be good, be learned, and be industrious, and you will not want the aid of travelling, to render you precious to your country, dear to your friends, happy within yourself.
- Be modest without diffidence, proud without presumption.
- Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
- Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.Henry David ThoreauCommonly attributed
- Be someone you are proud of.
- Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
- Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
- Be the first to laugh at your own blunder, and no one will laugh at you.
- Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
- Be the man you wish your father was.
- Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
- Be wondrous wary of your comportment. Get a good name, and be very tender of it afterward; for 'tis like the Venice-glass, quickly cracked, never to be mended, though patched it might be.
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.
- Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
- Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
- Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.
- Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
- Being professional is upholding high standards in low moments. It’s caring to do a good job even in jobs we don’t love; treat others with respect even if we’re disrespected; and do right even if we’re wronged.
- Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world.
- Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
- Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
- But above mind and above body stands character - the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a man's force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor.
- By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.