Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
- Topic: Character, Choice, Decision
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.
We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.
Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.
When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.
