Great Throughts Treasury

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Alexander Pope

By mutual confidence and mutual aid great deeds are done, and great discov'ries made.

Aid | Character | Confidence | Deeds | Deeds |

Pasquier Quesnel

A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another’s by exposing his faults.

Character | Reputation |

Madame de Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it.

Character | Confidence | Distrust | Enemy | Enough | Good | Man | Nothing | Opinion |

Samuel Smiles

The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and estate in the general good will; dignifying every station, and exacting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth and secures all the honor without the jealousies of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tells; for it is the result of proved honor, rectitude and consistency - qualities which, perhaps more than any others, command the general confidence and respect of mankind.

Character | Confidence | Consistency | Fame | Glory | Good | Honor | Influence | Life | Life | Man | Mankind | Position | Power | Qualities | Rank | Respect | Society | Wealth | Will | Respect |

John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

Character | Falsehood | Integrity | Man | Nothing | Reputation | Truth | Will |

Franklin Pierce Adams, pen name F.P.A.

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told to you in confidence you couldn't get anybody else to listen to.

Confidence | Wisdom |

Alexander Woollcott

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

Character | Reputation |

Ansel Adams

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Confidence | Emotions | Man | Men | Right | Spirit | Wisdom |

Ernest Bramah, born Ernest Brammah Smith

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.

Conduct | Reputation | Wisdom |

Frederika Bremer

People have generally three epochs in their confidence in man. In the first they believe him to be everything that is good, and they are lavish with their friendship and confidence. In the next, they have had experience, which has smitten down their confidence, and they; then have to be careful not to mistrust every one, and to put the worst construction upon everything. Later in life, they learn that the greater number of men have much; more good in them than bad, and that even when there is cause to blame, there is more reason to pity than condemn; and then a spirit of confidence again awakens within them.

Blame | Cause | Confidence | Experience | Good | Life | Life | Man | Men | Mistrust | People | Pity | Reason | Spirit | Wisdom | Friendship | Learn |

Deaver Brown

Few companies would have reached the going-concern stage without the inflated confidence of their founders. Entrepreneurs tend to be like eighteen-year-old marines who believe the bullet will go right through them without hurt or harm.

Confidence | Harm | Right | Will | Wisdom |

Joyce Cary

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

Confidence | Enthusiasm | Force | Will | Wisdom | Teacher |

Charles Pineau Duclos

An honest reputation is within the reach of all men; they obtain it by social virtues, and by doing their duty. This kind of reputation, it is true, is neither brilliant nor startling, but it is often the most useful for happiness.

Duty | Men | Reputation | Wisdom |

Du Coeur NULL

We may have the confidence of another without possessing his heart. If his heart be ours, there is no need of revelation or of confidence, all is open to us.

Confidence | Heart | Need | Revelation | Wisdom |

François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon

It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.

Confidence | Cowardice | God | Love | Man | Self | Self-love | Sensibility | Wisdom |