Character
968 quotes: 34 by Keith Craft, 934 from other voices.
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- By far the most vital lesson I have ever learned is the importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are. Our thoughts make us what we are.
- By nothing do men show their character more than by the things they laugh at.
- Capital! What is capital? Is it what a man has? Is it counted by pounds and pence, stocks and shares, by houses and lands? No! capital is not what a man has, but what a man is. Character is capital; honour is capital.
- Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.
- Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
- Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character.
- Character and Intellect: the two poles of our capacity; one without the other is but halfway to happiness. Intellect sufficeth not, character is also needed.
- Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything.
- Character building is the greatest object in life.
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
- Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
- Character gravitates upward, as with a celestial gravitation, while mere genius, without character, gravitates downward.
- Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things but I would say character is really integrity.
- Character is built when no one is looking.
- Character is defined by your ethics, not just by your work ethic.
- Character is destiny.
- Character is developed in the tough times, when we’re not getting our way but we keep doing the right thing.
- Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.
- Character is higher than intellect.Ralph Waldo EmersonCommonly attributed
- Character is impulse that has been reined down into steady continuance.
- Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Character is more important than talent.
- Character is not cut in marble--it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
- Character is simply habit long continued.
- Character is the diamond that scratches every other stone
- Character is the governing element in life, and is above genius.
- Character is the virtue of hard times.
- Character is what a man is in the dark.D. L. MoodySourced
- Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
- Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
- Character must be kept bright, as well as clean.
- Charisma attracts people to your life. Character is what makes them stay.
- Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
- Children are mirrors, they reflect back to us all we say and do.
- Children learn more from what you are, than what you teach.
- Circumstances are beyond the control of man, but his conduct is in his own power.
- Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
- Circumstances form the character; but like petrifying waters they harden while they form.
- Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.