Character
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- Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.
- Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
- Firmness, both in sufferance and exertion, is a character which I would wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and the cowardly, feeble resolve.
- Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
- For gratitude not merely stands alone at the head of all the virtues, but is even mother of all the rest.
- For if, resolutely, people do what is right, in time they come to like doing it.
- For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
- For the whole glory of virtue is in activity.
- Forgiveness isn’t approving what happened. It’s choosing to rise above it.
- Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
- Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
- Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
- Fortune is like a mirror--it does not alter men; it only shows men just as they are.
- Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.
- From afar, we admire talent. Up close, what counts most is character. You can impress people with your skills, but you earn their trust by standing for something greater than yourself.
- Genius is fine, but if it comes to a show-down, gumption is better.
- Gentleness is indeed the best test of gentlemanliness.
- Get hold of the spirit of wanting to help somebody else.
- Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.
- Give us grit. Give us grace. Give us gumption.
- Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
- Gold is tried by fire, fortitude by affliction.
- Gold knows how to be tested by fire, and loyalty among friends is tested when a crisis comes.
- Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
- Good books are a good influence. Good art is a good influence. Prayer is an influence as well. But the strongest influence is the example of a good life.
- Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece – by thought, choice, courage, and determination.
- Good example always brings forth good fruits.
- Good Habits are mentors, guardian angels, and servants that regulate your sleep, your work, your thought.
- Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
- Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
- Good Manners may in Seven Words be found: Forget Yourself and think of Those Around.
- Good-nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
- Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.Edwin Hubbell ChapinCommonly attributed
- Grandeur of character is the effect of many habits.Grenville KleiserSourced
- Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
- Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.
- Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
- Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.
- Grow into the habit of talking about the bright side of life.
- Habit is either the best of servants, or the worst of masters.