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If
you make friends with people
who are without character,
your
own character will tarnish as well.
unattributed
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The severest test of
character is not so much the ability to keep
a secret as it is,
when the
secret is finally out, to refrain from
disclosing that you knew it all
along.
Sydney J. Harris
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Material
possessions will rust away, wear away, or depreciate,
but your inner resources--character--must never depreciate. In seeking success you must also seek fulfillment. Ask yourself not only what you want to be, but who you want to be.
Elizabeth Dole
(see immediately below)
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Whether
on the floor of Congress or in the boardrooms of corporate
America or
in the corridors
of a big city hospital, there is no body of
professional expertise and no anthology of case studies
which can
supplant the force of character which provides both a sense of
direction
and a means
of fulfillment. It asks, not what you want
to be,
but who you want to be.
Elizabeth
Hanford Dole
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One
exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds
of community, who do their work creditably and accept
individual responsibility, are building the common future.
John W. Gardner |
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The poor Mullah Nasreddin was reduced to living on a
diet
of chickpeas and bread, while his neighbor dined on
fancy delicacies provided by the King himself.
One day his neighbor said to Nasreddin: "If
you were truly wise
you would learn to flatter the King and obey his every whim
like I do. Then you would not have to live on chickpeas
and bread." Nasreddin answered, "And if you would learn
to live on chickpeas and bread like I do, then you would
not have to flatter the King and obey his every whim."
Traditional Sufi Story
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What is the true test of character unless it be its
progressive development
in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is better to suffer
wrong than to do it,
and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel Johnson
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We
say we want a renewal of character in our day but we don't really
know what we ask for. To have a renewal of character is to
have a renewal of a creedal order that constrains, limits, binds,
obligates and compels. This price is too high for us to
pay. We want character but without conviction; we want
strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or
shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications
that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil;
we want decency without the authority to insist upon it; we want
moral community without any limitations to personal freedom.
In short, we want what we cannot possibly have on the terms that
we want it.
James
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Your
character is your destiny. Building
character is a task
for the brave
and dedicated. There are no shortcuts
when it
comes to building character.
If you wish to cure minimalism
in
your own life, to develop
a complete
commitment to
excellence and an
absolute
rejection of mediocrity, the
question
you need to start
asking yourself is, "What is
the most I can
do?"
Matthew
Kelly
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Every one of
us has in him or her a continent of undiscovered character.
Blessed
are they who act the Columbus to their own souls.
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People of character will make themselves worthy
of any position they are given.
Mohandas Gandhi |
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To
be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second.
To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities,
to be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the
good
of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still
a dear possession in absence or unkindness—these are the gifts of
fortune
which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.
Robert Louis Stevenson |
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If seeds in the black
earth can
turn into such
beautiful roses,
what might not the hearts
of humans become
in their long journey
toward the stars?
G.K. Chesterton
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Character
is the product of daily, hourly actions, words
and thoughts:
daily forgiveness, unselfishness, kindnesses,
sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others,
struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial.
It is these, like the blinding colors in a picture, or the
blending notes of music, which constitute the person.
John MacDuff
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither
physical feats nor
intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate,
to
include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong."
Sydney J. Harris |
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Everyone
journeys through character as well as through time.
The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.
Dick Francis
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You can tell more about
people by what they say about others
than you can by what others say about
them.
Leo Aikman
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You
can easily judge the character of people
by how they treat those who can do nothing for them.
James
D. Miles
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Characters
live to be noticed. People with character notice how they live.
Nancy Moser |
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Another
flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build
and nobody
wants to do maintenance.
Kurt
Vonnegut
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Excellence is never an accident.
Jerold Panas
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When
wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost,
something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
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People seem not to see that their opinion
of the world
is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo
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Parents
can only give good advice or put children on the right
paths, but
the final forming of a person's character lies in his or her
own hands.
Anne Frank |
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Prayer
is the only real action in the full sense of the word,
because prayer
is the only thing
that changes one's character. A change in character,
or a
change in soul, is a real change.
When that kind of change takes place, you
become a different
person and, therefore,
for the rest of your life you act
in a different way from
the way in which you have previously
acted, and in
which you would have continued to act had you
not prayed. In other words,
you become a different person. The amount of
difference may be only very
slight
for each time that you pray: nevertheless it is there,
for you cannot
pray without
making yourself different in some degree.
Emmet
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As you pursue your
grand dreams, never forget the person you really
want to be. More vital than success at work or in personal pursuits
is
the character that you will develop in the process. On a very deep
level
you will seek to be the kind of person that enjoys wholesome self-respect.
Robert Schuller |
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Character
cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through
experience of trial and suffering can the soul be
strengthened, vision
cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen
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Character
is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow
is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln |
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It's
been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high
and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously--not
because
their plans didn't work, but because their character flaws
undercut
those plans. Whether the microphone caught them making
racist
comments or their greed overcame their common sense, who
they
were as people made all the difference--more than their résumés,
their degrees, or even their past successes. If you
fail at the art
of being human and staying human, you recklessly court
disaster.
Marianne
Williamson
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I
hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain
what I consider the most enviable of all titles,
the character of an honest man.
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