"Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness."

Baldwin, Faith on character
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"It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on character
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"When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on forgiveness
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"To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time."

Hepburn, Katharine on character
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"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."

Lincoln, Abraham on character
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"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on character
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on character
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"Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted."

Unknown, Source on character
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"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."

Shakespeare, William on character
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"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on character
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"If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse."

Proverb on character
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"I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on character
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"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."

Plato on character
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"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."

Petrarch, Francesco on character   

"Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man."

Pandita, Saskya on character   

"An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon."

Pandita, Saskya on character   

"Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us."

Paine, Thomas on character
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"Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on love
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"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."

Hay, Louise L. on love
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"True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye."

Smith, Robert on repentance
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"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."

Barrie, Sir James M. on joy
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"Joy runs deeper than despair"

Boom, Corrie Ten on joy
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"Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters."

Browning, Robert on joy   

"Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside."

Colgrove, Dr. Melba on joy
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"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love"

Mother Teresa on joy
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"One joy scatters a hundred grieves."

Proverb, Chinese on joy   

"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."

Rohn, Jim on joy
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"May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam."

Unknown, Source on joy   

"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence."

Merton, Thomas on responsibility
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"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another"

Merton, Thomas on passion   

"And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? [Matthew 7:3]"

Bible on hypocrisy
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"Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not."

Byron, Lord on hypocrisy
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"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."

Cooley, Charles Horton on hypocrisy   

"Clean your finger before you point at my spots."

Franklin, Benjamin on hypocrisy
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"A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could."

Hazlitt, William on hypocrisy
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"How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say."

Wilde, Oscar on hypocrisy
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"Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself."

Schlaggenberg, Kajetan Von on maturity   

"Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit."

Allen, James on honesty
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"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

Aurelius, Marcus on harmony
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