Firestar Queen Goddessmember of the fuba's blog: "wisdom"

The highest qualities of character… must be earned. ~ Lyman Abbott ~ The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. ~ Maya Angelou ~ My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur. ~ Earl of Arran ~ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ~ John Atkinson ~ Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions. ~ Roger Babson ~ Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. ~ Faith Baldwin ~ During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. ~ Bernard M. Baruch ~ As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7] ~ Bible ~ Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. ~ Jacqueline Bisset ~ 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 D. Boardman ~ Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market. ~ E. M. Bounds ~ There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose. ~ William M. Bulger ~ The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. ~ Abigail Van Buren ~ 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 Ellery Channing ~ Character must be kept bright as well as clean. ~ Lord Chesterfield ~ Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. ~ Henry Clay ~ Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have. ~ Marva Collins ~ It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize. ~ Stephen R. Covey ~ Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character… ~ Stephen R. Covey ~ Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles. ~ Henry Drummond ~ What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever. ~ Henry Van Dyke ~ Do what you know and perception is converted into character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. ~ L. Estrange ~ Character is the sum and total of a person's choices. ~ P. B. Fitzwater ~ You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these. ~ Clarence Francis ~ Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. ~ Felix Frankfurter ~ Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited. ~ Robert Freeman ~ Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. ~ Ava Gardner ~ Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character. ~ Vince Gill ~ Character develops itself in the stream of life. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~ Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~ When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head. ~ Guideposts ~ A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. ~ Manly Hall ~ There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying. ~ Colin Hay ~ To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. ~ Katharine Hepburn ~ A man's character is his guardian divinity. ~ Heraclitus ~ Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. ~ John Howe ~ It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts. ~ Harry Howell ~ Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time. ~ Elbert Hubbard ~ It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. ~ William James ~ Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse. ~ (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal ~ I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. ~ By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. ~ Grenville Kleiser ~ You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater ~ To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character. ~ Marie Leneru ~ We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. ~ Walter Lippmann ~ Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. ~ James Russell Lowell ~ Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination. ~ John Luther ~ The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. ~ Thomas B. Macaulay ~ While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize. ~ John Mason ~ Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered. ~ Merikare ~ Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. ~ James A. Michener ~ He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; ~ John Milton ~ A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is. ~ Jack Miner ~ If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil. ~ Mole ~ Character development is the aim of education. ~ O'Shea ~ Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. ~ Frank Outlaw ~ An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon. ~ Saskya Pandita ~ Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance. ~ Charles H. Parkhurst ~ I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself. ~ Peter The Great ~ How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. ~ Francesco Petrarch ~ When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. ~ Plato ~ Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~ Chinese Proverb ~ A rich man has no need of character. ~ Hebrew Proverb ~ The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. ~ Sir Joshua Reynolds ~ Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones. ~ Darrell Royal ~ 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 with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~ Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live. ~ Bayard Taylor ~ If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. ~ William M. Thackeray ~ You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best. ~ John M. Thomas ~ Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves. ~ Leon Trotsky ~ To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. ~ Mark Twain ~ Before you advise anyone "Be yourself!" reassess his character. ~ Source Unknown ~ Character is a victory, not a gift. ~ Source Unknown ~ Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. ~ Source Unknown ~ It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else. ~ Source Unknown ~ They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence ~ Virgil ~ It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. ~ Woodrow T. Wilson ~ The man that makes a character, makes foes. ~ Edward Young ~