Character
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- Habits change into character.
- Happiness is not the end of life; character is.
- Hard work breeds self-respect.
- Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
- Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury.
- Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child.
- Have you known how to compose your manners? You have done a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to take repose? You have done more than he who has taken cities and empires.
- He is a great man who uses earthenware dishes as if they were silver; but he is equally great who uses silver as if it were earthenware.
- He is good that does good to others.
- He is great who speaks great, greater who thinks great, and greatest who lives great.
- He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
- He makes no friend who never made a foe.Alfred TennysonSourced
- He that falls into sin is a man, that grieves at it is a saint, that boasteth of it is a devil; yet some glory in that shame, counting the stains of sin the best complexion of their souls.
- He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him, but makes me poor indeed.
- He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
- He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.
- He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
- He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.
- He who gives himself airs of importance exhibits the credentials of impotence.
- He who has no mind to trade with the devil, should be so wise as to keep away from his shop.
- He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.
- He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
- He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.
- He who promptly corrects, makes his error the less.
- He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get there; the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.
- He who walks straight rarely falls.
- Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
- His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.Publilius SyrusCommonly attributed
- Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.
- Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression.
- Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?
- How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.
- How many men live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
- How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.
- How you do anything is how you do everything.
- Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
- Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.
- Human improvement is from within outwards.James Anthony FroudeCommonly attributed
- Humility disarms envy and strikes it dead.