Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life (22 page)

David
Oman
McKay

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

John Albert Michener

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."

James D. Miles

"You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say."

John D. Mitchell

"A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it."

James Moffatt

"The most vital test of a man’s character is not how he behaves after success, but how he sustains defeat."

Raymond Moley

"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do."

John Baptiste Molire

"Character is what you are in the dark."

Dwight L. Moody

"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."

John Lord Morley

"Character is a subtle thing. Its sources are obscure, its roots delicate and invisible. We know it when we see it and it always commands our admiration, and the absence of it our pity; but it is largely a matter of will."

Leo J. Muir

"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."

Jean Iris Murdoch

"Tell me what ticks you off, and I will tell you what makes you tick."

Lloyd John Ogilvie

"Character is much easier kept than recovered."

Thomas Paine

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

Thomas Paine

"Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world."

Theodore Parker

"Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies."
Alexander Pope

"Most women have no characters at all."

Alexander Pope

"Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers, are all alive and quick; and if they hear the Gospel they will be glad, and the promises are made to them, and they will rejoice in them."

Parley P. Pratt

"Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for."

Robert Quillen

"Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows."

Charles Reade

“You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy- happiness ,joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.”
Zig Ziglar

"Sow a Thought, and you reap an Act;
Sow an Act, and you reap a Habit;
Sow a Habit, and you reap a Character;
Sow a Character, and you reap a Destiny."
Charles Reade

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans."

Ronald Wilson Reagan

"Calamity is the test of integrity."

Samuel Richardson

"A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another’s."
Jean Paul Richter

"In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual."

Jean Paul Richter

"Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another."

Jean Paul Richter

"The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and
Independence
."

Edward
Vernon
Rickenbacker

"The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them."

Walter S. Robertson

"I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond; that character - not wealth or power or position - is of supreme worth."
John (Jay) Davison Rockefeller, IV

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
Will
Rogers
"The recent action of an eastern state's education department in eliminating from its curriculum all courses dealing in any way with moral ethics, on the pretext of complying with the Constitutional provision for the separation of church and state, is most disturbing. This is a repudiation of all responsibility for the building of character the true purpose of education."

Marion G. Romney

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character."

R.C. Samsel

"It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own."
Herbert Samuel

"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."

Arthur Schopenhauerv

"You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise."
Lucius Annus Seneca

"In thy face I see
The
map of honor, truth, and loyalty.”
William Shakespeare

"Men should be what they seem."

William Shakespeare

"A persons character is but half formed until after wedlock."

C. Simmons

"A certain bygone philosophy - which certainly must have quite forgotten all about the real child - used to speak of the child's nature as a tabula rasa, or 'blank page,' upon which experience and training might write what they pleased. As a matter of fact, the child’s nature at birth, like that of a calf or a chick, is pretty well scribbled over by the experience of its ancestors. It is far from being blank, for as soon as the little organism comes into the world, it begins to do certain things and do them with much zeal and determination, as every one knows who knows real children."
Edward O. Sisson

"Abraham Lincoln tells somewhere that as a boy when he met an obscure or ambiguous sentence in his reading it threw him into a sort of rage. The fact is that this was simply a form of instinct for clear thinking which is found in every child and manifests itself abundantly to the perception of the good teacher. Far more important than any particular piece of knowledge, than geography or arithmetic or spelling, is this love of clearness in our mental life and instinctive hatred of confusion and obscurity. Let us learn to know what we know clearly and definitely, and also how we know it.
The great intellectual need of men and women in the outer world is not so much more knowledge as it is better knowledge and better thinking. There is much philosophy in the humorist's remark, "It was never my ignorance that done me up, but the things I know'd that wasn't so." The great enemies of intellectual life are superstition, gullibility, and fallacious reasoning. A mere knowledge of facts, important as that is, is no safeguard against these. A conscious desire and resolve to think clearly is the true remedy.
Our national success will depend largely upon the development of a generation of men and women who have formed a love and habit of clear thinking and who can do their part in solving the problems that confront civilized man today.”
Edward O. Sisson

"Good is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race."

Edward O. Sisson

"In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits; for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli. Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education. But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanically or automatically. Such habits as these begin to form very early, and constitute a kind of supporting framework for the higher elements of character.”
Edward O. Sisson

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

John Wooden

"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."

Lawrence
Bell

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

Winston Churchill

"The time is always right to do what is right."

 
Martin Luther King Jr.

"Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders...Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest."

Dale Carnegie

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

Oprah Winfrey

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

Sir Winston Churchill

"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty."

John D. Rockefeller

"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have." Jean-Paul Sartre

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand."

Baruch Spinoza

"If it ever came to a choice between compromising my moral principles and the performance of my duties, I know I'd go with my moral principles."

Anonymous

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

Winston Churchill

"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."

George Horace Lorimer

"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe."

Winston Churchill

"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"I kept six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who."

Rudyard Kipling

"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter."

Henry Fielding

"What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do."
John Ruskin

"No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."

John Milton

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh--at yourself."

Ethel Barrymore

"When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first." Josiah Quincy

78 Inspirational Quotes