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character 2 - character
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Character: the grandest thing in the world.
Orison Swett
Marden
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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 |
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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
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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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A
good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,
and
loving favor rather than silver and gold.
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Proverbs
22:1
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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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Arthur Schopenhauer
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 one can 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. |
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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 |
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A noble
heart, like the sun, showeth
its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
Philip
Sydney
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
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Martin
Luther
King, Jr.
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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 |
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Resolve to
be thyself; and know that we who finds ourselves, lose our misery.
Matthew Arnold |
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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 |
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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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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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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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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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