Browsing Quotes With Tag: character (187)
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[Doing] assists the education of the conscience and reinforces its knowledge in ways that no amount of church attending or studying can. Doing actually changes the fiber of a person’s nature – his soul, his conscience, his character. Doing changes his view of himself. A person’s behavior is largely a product of such self-made fuel.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Inevitably, any time we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. Often the best defense is a good offense, and sometimes this manifests itself in cynicism, the defense of the mind, for when we expect nothing we will never be disappointed. So the attack frequently manifests itself in sarcasm, in cutting humor, in sharpness of tongue, in criticalness, and in anything which will keep from exposing the soft, vulnerable tenderness within. Each partner then will tend to wait upon the initiative of the other for love, only again to be disappointed but also to be confirmed as to the rightness of his or her own past accusations.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The way we live, particularly under strain and threat, is our clearest testimony. Over time it reflects what we really believe. If it is in harmony with what we say we believe, the Lord will use us and bear testimony though us in some way to every person we meet.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We already know enough to lead perfect lives. We have all read the golden rule and the Sermon on the Mount. Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you tell me how you get your feelings of importance, I’ll tell you what you are. That determines your character.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do.
But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I will speak ill of no man… and speak all the good I know of everybody.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When a man’s fight begins with himself, he is worth something.
Speaker: Robert BrowningPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Act in earnest, and you will become naturally earnest in all you do.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Jill, of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism’ is the worse. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice – if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice’ – you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness… the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can’t have both. The ordinary bloke suffers every time he chooses between spending a buck on beer or tucking it away for his kids, between getting up to go to work or losing his job. But he always chooses what hurts least or pleasures most. The scoundrel and the saint make the same choices on a larger scale.”
Speaker: Robert HeinleinPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 11:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it is eight times as good as any other method. It’s worst fault is that its leaders reflect their constituents – a low level, but what can you expect? So look at Douglas and ponder that, in his ignorance, stupidity, and self-seeking, he resembles his fellow Americans but is a notch or two above average.”
Speaker: Robert HeinleinPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“A pledge for a worthless man is a worthless pledge indeed.” Hephaestus
Speaker: HomerPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
Speaker: Alan AldaPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“That’s the point of us. You have potential. I’m here to bring it out.”
“Potential as what?”
“As a human being. You have all the basic ingredients. You’re really very likable, when you put your mind to it. You make people laugh, when you can be bothered, and you’re kind, and when you decide you like someone then that person feels as though she’s the center of the whole world, and that’s a very sexy feeling. It’s just that most of the time you can’t be bothered.”
“No,” is all I can think of to say.
“You just… you just don’t do anything. You get lost in your head, and you sit around thinking instead of getting on with something, and most of the time you think rubbish. You always seem to miss what’s really happening.”Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s a currency like any other, self-worth. You spend year saving up, and you can blow it all in an evening if you so choose. I’d done forty-odd years’ worth in the space of a few months, and now I had to save up again.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are other ways of dying, without killing yourself. You can let parts of yourself die. Jess’s mother had let her face die, and I watched it come to life again.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
Speaker: Bob DylanPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men are not angered my mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injury depends on the feeling that a legitimate claim has been denied. The more claims on life, therefore, that your patient can be induced to make, the more often he will feel injured and, as a result, ill-tempered.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!