Character quotes
17 quotes. Authors include Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Haydon, Daisaku Ikeda, Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harold Nicolson, Harriet Woods, Helen Keller, The Buddha, William Shakespeare.
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“Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.”
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“You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.”
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“As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.”
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“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.”
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“When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.”
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“Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win.”
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“We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.”
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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
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“Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.”
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“The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work.”
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“There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.”
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“We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.”
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“He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.”
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“Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, upon hearing which one attains peace.”
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“Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close.”
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“Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.”
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“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”