Character
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- Clever men are good, but they are not the best.Thomas CarlyleSourced
- Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.
- Compromise does not mean cowardice.
- Conduct yourself so as to deserve the best that can come to you, and the consciousness of your own proper behaviour will keep you in spirits if it should not come.
- Confidence, not arrogance. Humility, not ego.
- Confront improper conduct, not by retaliation, but by example.
- Conquer the angry man by love. Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the liar with truth.
- Conscience is your magnetic needle; reason is your chart.
- Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
- Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.
- Constancy means, not he who begins, but he who perseveres.
- Consult your conscience, rather than popular opinion.
- Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
- Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality.
- Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities
- Courage is the first of human virtues because it makes all others possible.
- Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
- Courtesy is one of the cheapest exercises of virtue; it costs us even less than rudeness.
- Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question, “Is it right?”
- Day by day, what you do is who you become.
- Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
- Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
- Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
- Difficulties are things that show what men are.
- Difficulties show a person’s character.
- Dignity consists not in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
- Distance yourself from people that you don’t want to become.
- Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
- Do not become too concerned about what others may think of you. Be very concerned about what you think of yourself.
- Do not expect some tangible reward for your goodness; your actions are their own reward.
- Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
- Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
- Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.
- Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him; forgiving, it sets you above him.
- Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
- Don’t do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. You’ll always know.
- Don't dream of happiness; deserve it.
- Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
- Don’t let pain define you, let it refine you.