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Happiness is not the end
of life; character is.

Henry Ward Beecher

   

The wisest person could ask no more of Fate Than to be
simple, modest, brave, true, Safe from the many, honored
by the few; To count as naught in world, or church, or
state; But inwardly in secret to be great.

James Russell Lowell

      

Live your life while you have it.  Life is a splendid gift.  There is nothing small
in it.  For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest.  But to
live your life you must discipline it.  You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose,
erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the
same end and that end, not self but God.  That is what we call character.

Florence Nightingale
  

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them.  Upon one's
own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation
of facts.  Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective
principals.  As we are, so will be our ultimate truth.

Carl Jung
   

Give us grace and strength to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety
and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our
enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come,
that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in
wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death,
loyal and loving to one another.

Robert Louis Stevenson

  

The best thing to give your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent,
tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example;
to your father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her
proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all people, charity.

John Balfour

   

  

People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do.
Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise,
nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people
of sense and understanding.

Jean de la Bruyere

    

I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness,
and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence.
The world will be theirs as soon as ever a sufficient number of people
with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance think
and live out the thoughts of love and truth,
of meekness and peaceableness.

Albert Schweitzer

   

You should remember that though
another may have more money, beauty,
and brains than you, when it comes
to the rarer spiritual values such as
charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility
of heart, you have an equal chance
with everyone to be the most beloved
and honored of all people.

Archibald Rutledge

   
Eccentricity has always abounded where strength of character has abounded;
and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional
to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.
That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill

  

  

Character, not circumstances,
make the person.

Booker T. Washington

Reputation is what men and women think of us;
character is what God and the angels know of us.

Thomas Paine
     

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,
and loving favor rather than silver and gold.

Proverbs 22:1
  
It is more important to understand the ground of your
own behavior than to understand the motives of another.

Dag Hammarskjold

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What we are contributes much more to our happiness than what
we have. . . . What we are in ourselves, what accompanies us
when we are alone, what no onecan give us or take away, is
obviously more essential to us than everything we have in the way
of possessions, or even what we may be in the eyes of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer
  
  
There are three types of people that all ought to look upon with affection:
those that with affection look at the face of the earth, that are delighted
with rational works of art, and that look lovingly on little children.

anonymous
  

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

Philip Sydney
  

You may be good, but what are you good for?  You've got to be good
for something.  You've got to be about some project, some task that
requires you to be humble and obedient to the universal principles of
service. You've got to live a life of complete and total integrity in order
to give this kind of service.  This integrity enables you to love other
people unconditionally, to be courageous and kind at the same time,
because you have integratedness inside your own soul.

Stephen Covey

  
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Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you
feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes
the inner voice which says, "This is the real me,"
and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

William James
  

Every human being is intended to have a character of his or her own;
to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

William Ellery Channing
  
  
If one is called to be a street sweeper, one should sweep streets
even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music,
or Shakespeare wrote poetry.  One should sweep streets so well
that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his or her job well.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
  

Resolve to be thyself; and know that we who finds ourselves, lose our misery.

Matthew Arnold
  
  
I care not what others think of what I do,
but I care very much about what I think of what I do.
That is character.

Theodore Roosevelt
    

If you would be interesting, be interested; if you would be pleased, be pleasing;
if you would be loved, be lovable; if you would be helped, be helpful.

anonymous

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Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige.
It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.

William Ward
 
 
  

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Character:  the grandest thing in the world.

Orison Swett Marden