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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

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

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

Many people build character as cathedrals were built, the part nearest
the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven,
the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

Henry W. Beecher

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

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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

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

Philip Sydney

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

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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

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

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

William Ward

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

Matthew Arnold

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep,
is this:  "To rise above little things."

John Burroughs

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin
but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The circumstances amid which you live determine your
reputation; the truth you believe determines your character.

Reputation is what you are supposed to be; character is what you are.

Reputation is the photograph; character is the face.

Reputation comes over one from without; character grows up from within.

Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community;
character is what you have when you go away.

Your reputation is learned in an hour;
your character does not come to light for a year.

Reputation is made in a moment; character is built in a lifetime.

Reputation grows like a mushroom; character grows like the oak.

A single newspaper report gives you your reputation;
a life of toil gives you your character.

Reputation makes you rich or makes you poor;
character makes you happy or makes you miserable.

Reputation is what people say about you on your tombstone;
character is what angels say about you before the throne of God.

William Hersey Davis

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

Thomas Paine

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