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«If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.»
«Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live»
«Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.»
Author: Heraclitus of Ephesus
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
day by day, formed, month, patient, protract, protracted, protracting, protracts
«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.»
Author: John Luther
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Character
| Keywords:
build, character, choice, contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, determination, determinations, extent, gift, given, outstanding, piece, Piece By Piece, praised, talent, talents, to that extent, to what extent, with determination
«I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.»
«If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.»
«If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.»
Author: William Bennett
(Author, Politician)
| About:
Character,
Children,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
admiration, admire, allegiance, forms, identify, identifying, The Forms, traits
«If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.»
«He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Character,
Confidence,
Courage,
Life,
Poets,
Risk,
Writers
| Keywords:
After life, come to life, dare, Get A Life, lives, not, On Writing, others, poetry, realise, that, they, The Others, This Is Your Life, To be written, write, write of, write out
«If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Character,
Relationships
| Keywords:
relation to
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