some of my fav.quotes of inspiration
Be your
character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your
word.
Lord Chesterfield
Reputation is
what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of
us.
Thomas
Paine
Nothing of
character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.
Daniel
Webster
The essential
thing is not knowledge, but character.
Joseph Le Conte
It requires
less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate
them.
J. Petit
Senn
A good name
will shine forever.
Proverb
A fair
reputation is a plant, delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in its
growth. It will not shoot up in a night like the gourd of the prophet; but, like
that gourd, it may perish in a night.
Jeremy Taylor
Sow an act,
and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character,
and you reap a destiny.
George Dana
Boardman
Talents are
best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the
world.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Our character
is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made
through life.
John C. Geikie
Reputation is
for time; character is for eternity.
J. B. Gough
Character is
a diamond that scratches every other stone.
Cyrus A. Bartol
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
Nature
magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his
character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talents are
best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of
the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Characters do
not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Benjamin
Disraeli
A man's
character is like his shadow, which sometimes follows and sometimes precedes
him, and which is occasionally longer, occasionally shorter, than he
is.
Madame de la Rochejuquelein
Men best show
their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the
simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to
the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.
Arthur
Schopenhauer
Every man, as
to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to
raise themselves above the ideas of their times.
Voltaire
It is of
little traits that the greatest human character is composed.
William
Winter
Character and
personal force are the only investments that are worth anything.
Walt
Whitman
Character is,
for the most part,
simply habit become fixed.
C. H.
Parkhurst
We are
builders of our own characters. We have different positions, spheres,
capacities, privileges, different work to do in the world, different temporal
fabrics to raise; but we are all alike in this, -- all are architects of
fate.
John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware
Character is,
in the long run, the decisive factor in the life of individuals and of nations
alike.
Theodore Roosevelt
Actions,
looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
Johann Kasper Lavater
Every human
being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and
to do what no other can do.
William Henry Channing
Let us not
say, Every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, Every man is
the architect of his own character.
George Dana Boardman
Fate is
character.
William Winter
Character is
higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to
think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Such as are
thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul
is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus
Aurelius
