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Temptations discover what we are -Thomas a Kempis

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw

What you have to attempt--to be yourself. What you have to pray for--to become a mirror in which, according to the degree of purity of heart you have attained, the greatness of life will be reflected. -Dag Hammarskjold

Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state. -William James

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to do. -Edmund Burke

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. -Alex Hamilton

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I've felt that the only way to survive was with dignity, pride and courage. -Eric Clapton

Iron is full of impurities that weaken it; through forging, it becomes steel and is transformed into a razor-sharp sword. Human beings develop in the same fashion. -Morihei Ueshiba

When push comes to shove, think independently. -Charles Swindoll

A man's character is his fate. -Heraclitus

We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Talmudic saying

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. -Henry David Thoreau

Humility is a right estimate of one's self. -C. H. Spurgeon

You cannot trust a man in the world that does not begin with his own heart, his own character, and his own life. -Russell H. Conwell

We are not what society and randomness have made us; we are what we have chosen to be from the depth of our being. We are product of our will. We are self-made in the deepest sense. -Peter Koestenbaum

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted. -C.G. Jung

Strive for excellence, not perfection. -Jerry Traylor

Let me entreat you, gentlemen, on your part not to take any measures which, viewed in the calm light of reason, will lessen the dignity and sully the glory you have hitherto maintained. -George Washington

What we are on the inside, what we continually think about, eventually shows in our words, actions, and even our countenances. -Linda Dillow

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. -Leonardo da Vinci

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. -Confucius

The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. From the state of a man's heart doth proceed the conditions of his life; his thoughts blossom into deeds, and his deeds bear the fruitage of character and destiny. -James Allen

...character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion... -Aristotle

Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people. -Norman Vincent Peale

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. -Mark Twain

I don't want to stand with the setting sun And hate myself for the things I've done. -Edgar A. Guest

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale. -Horace

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

...grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure. -Plato

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever so little scar...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. -William James

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. -David Starr Jordan

 

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