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Character
cannot be developed in ease
and quiet. Only through experiences
of
trial and suffering can the soul be
strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition
inspired and success achieved.
Helen Keller
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My
grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those
who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to
be in the first group; there was less competition there.
Indira Gandhi
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It is not in
the still calm of life, or in the the repose of a pacific station,
that great
characters are formed. . . . The habits of a vigorous mind are
formed in
contending
with difficulties. All history will convince you of this,
and that wisdom
and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the
lessons
of retirement
and leisure. Great necessities call out great
virtues.
Abigail Adams |
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Character is
an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed
with, it can be screwed around with, but it can’t be
ultimately changed. It’s the structure of our bones, the
blood that runs through our veins.
Sam Shepard
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In the
stormy current of life characters are weights or floats
which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at
another maintain us on the surface.
Hippolyte Taine |
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Be
such a person, and live such a life, that if every person were
such
as you,
and every life a life like yours, this earth would be Paradise.
Phillips
Brooks
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Every thought
which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform,
makes
its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and the result of these
impressions
is our character. The study of books, of music, or of
the fine arts is not essential to a lofty
character. It rests with
the worker whether a rude piece of marble shall be squared into
a
horse-block
or carved into an Apollo, a Psyche, or a Venus di Milo.
It is yours, if you
choose, to develop
a spiritual form more beautiful
than any of these,
instinct with immortal life,
refulgent with all the
glory of character.
Orison Swett Marden |
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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but
do not let
them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness,
insight.
When we do
the best we can,
we never know what
miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of
another.
Helen Keller
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Before
enlightenment, chop wood,
carry water.
After enlightenment, chop wood,
carry water.
unattributed
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The
best index to people's character is
(a) how they treat people
who can't
do them any good, and
(b) how they treat people who can't fight back.
Abigail
Van Buren
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First say to
yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
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Honesty
is the cornerstone of character.
Malcolm
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Keep your
thoughts right, for as you think, so you are.
Therefore, think only
those things that will make
the world better, and you unashamed.
Henry H. Buckley
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Be more concerned with your
character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really
are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden |
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Every event offers us a blank canvas upon which we paint with the brush
of humility or arrogance; modesty or pride; service or self-aggrandizement.
If we seek praise and position, we shall crash. If we seek character and
service, we shall soar. Even if you do not have a highway named after
you or you are not awarded the coveted job or prize, you will be
at peace with yourself and your soul will be satisfied.
Alan Cohen
The Tao Made
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The structure of human
betterment cannot be built upon foundations
of materialism or business,
but upon the bedrock
of individual character in free men and women.
Herbert C.
Hoover |
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Let
everyone sweep in front of his or her door and the whole world will
be clean.
Mother
Teresa
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However
many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will
they do if you do not act upon them?
The
Dhammapada |
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No longer talk at
all about the kind of person
a good person ought to be, but be such.
Marcus Aurelius
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Live so that when your
children think of
fairness,
caring, and integrity,
they think of you.
H. Jackson Browne, Jr.
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Character may
be manifested in
the great
moments, but it is made in
the small
ones.
Phillips Brooks
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Character
consists of what you do
on the third and fourth tries.
James
Michener
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There is
nothing more personal than your values. What you will
and won't do to get ahead, the lines you will and won't cross to win,
whom you will and won't step on for personal gain, are at the very
core of your code of honor. And your code of honor determines
your character. And your character is who you are.
Behind closed doors. When nobody is watching.
Patti LaBelle
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Character
isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and
acts,
thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or
hate or anger
take possession of the mind, they become self-forged
chains.
Helen
Gahagan Douglas
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If everyone were
clothed with integrity, if every heart were
just, frank, and kindly, the other virtues would be
well-nigh useless,
since their chief purpose is to make us
bear with patience the
injustice of our fellows.
Moliere
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Our fathers
gave us many laws, which they had learned from their
fathers. These laws were good. They told us to treat
all people as they treated us; that we should never be the first
to break a bargain; that it was a disgrace to tell a lie; that we
should speak only the truth; that it was a shame for one man to
take from another his wife, or his property without paying for
it. We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and
hears everything, and that he never forgets; that hereafter he
will give every person a spirit-home according to his
desserts: if we have been good people, we will have a good
home; if we have been bad people, we will have a bad home.
This I believe, and all my people believe the same. . . .
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The
longer you live the more you realize that forgiveness,
consideration, and
kindness are three of the great secrets of life.
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People
seem not to see that their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Four
things that we must learn to do
If we would make our record true:
To think without confusion clearly;
To love our fellow people sincerely;
To act from honest motives purely;
To trust in God and Heaven securely.
Henry van
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