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18 Matches Found.
- James Buckham
Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop
Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) Indian Novelist
The world has battle-room for all. Go fight and conquer if ye can. But if ye rise or if ye fall, Be each, pray God, a gentleman!
- Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696) French Moralist and Writer
Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.
- Harry Harrison
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. We need to be careful, upon achieving happiness, not to lose the virtues which have produced it.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.
- Donald A. Adams
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
- Ann Landers, born 1918
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
- John Morley
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Politician
The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor. - Tribute to Neville Chamberlain; 1940
- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
- Thomas Szasz (1920-) American Psychiatrist
The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.
- Gary Hall, Sr. (1951-) American Olympic Silver Medallist in Swimming
I was not only proud of what he did in the pool, but I was proud of the way he handled himself out of the pool. The measure of a true champion is not how they win. It's how they handle defeat -a quote above is about his son.
- Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973) American Aviator and Business Executive
The four cornerstones of character on which this nation was built are:
Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American Publisher
You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.
- Brian Tracy
Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th President of the United States
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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