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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Heraclitus or Heraclitus of Ephesus NULL
A man's character is his guardian divinity.
Reputation is sometimes as wide as the horizon, when character is but the point of a needle. Character is what one really is; reputation what others believe him to be.
Character | Reputation |
It is not what a man gets, but what a man is that he should think of. He should first think of his character and then of his condition. He that has character need have no fears about his condition. Character will draw after it condition. Circumstances obey principles.
Character | Circumstances | Man | Need | Principles | Will | Think |
Ten Success Rules: Put success before amusement. Learn something every day. Cut free from routine. Concentrate on net profits. Make your services known. Never worry over trifles. Shape your decisions quickly. Acquire skill and technique. Deserve loyalty and co-operation. Value character above all.
Character | Day | Loyalty | Loyalty | Skill | Success | Trifles | Worry | Learn | Value |
Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.
Beauty | Character | Life | Life | Mind | Purity | Simplicity |
A man's character is the reality of himself. His reputation is the opinion others have formed of him. Character is in him; reputation is from other people - that is the substance, this is the shadow.
Heraclitus or Heraclitus of Ephesus NULL
A man's character is his fate.
The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.
Bible | Character | Conduct | Literature | Bible |
The proposition that everything happens has its cause... has the peculiar character that it makes possible the very experience which is its own ground of proof, and that in this experience it must always itself be presupposed.
Cause | Character | Experience |
The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us; they implore us to think more of the character of our people than of its vast numbers; to look upon our vast natural resources, not as tempters to ostentation and pride, but as a means to be converted, by the refining alchemy of education, into mental and spiritual treasures - and thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wisdom increases with prosperity, and whose virtues are equal to its power.
Alchemy | Character | Education | Example | Experience | Means | Ostentation | Past | People | Power | Pride | Prosperity | Wisdom | World | Think |
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Jesse Jackson, fully Jesse Louis Jackson
Dream of a world where we measure character by how much we share and care, not by how much we take and consume.