Character
968 quotes: 34 by Keith Craft, 934 from other voices.
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- Don’t trade respect for attention.
- Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
- Don’t worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.
- Duty, Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
- Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.
- Each person must live their life as a model for others.
- Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
- Earn your leadership every day.
- Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
- Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
- Education has for its object the formation of character.
- Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.
- Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may lower another by a defeat.
- Endurance is a much better test of character than any one act of heroism, however noble.
- Endurance is the crowning quality,And patience all the passion of great hearts.James Russell LowellCommonly attributed
- Energy of will--self-originating force--is the soul of every great character.
- Enthusiasm for what is good and great is the noblest condition the heart can know, a disposition in which it were well if it could continually abide.
- Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor; we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others; but there are priests of Baal, of Moloch, and of all the false gods.
- Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct he wishes to be valued.
- Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err.
- Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
- Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it’s what you do at that moment that determines who you are.
- Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.
- Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things.
- Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.
- Example has more followers than reason.
- Example is always more efficacious than precept.
- Example is leadership.
- Example is more powerful than precept.
- Example is not the main thing in influencing others . It is the only thing.
- Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
- Excellence — moral, ethical, personal excellence — is worth whatever it costs. Pay the price.
- Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
- Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures – character.
- Fame is what you have taken, Character's what you give; When to this truth you waken, Then you begin to live.Bayard TaylorCommonly attributed
- Feel that you can always learn something from somebody else.
- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.