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Quote by Patti LaBelle

“There is nothing more personal than your values. What you will and won't do to get ahead, the lines you will and won't cross to win, whom you will and won't step on for personal gain, are at the very core of your code of honor. And your code of honor determines your character. And your character is who you are. Behind closed doors. When nobody is watching.”

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Patti LaBelle

Patti LaBelle, born on May 24, 1944, is a renowned American author. Her works span a variety of genres, including autobiography, novels, and poetry. LaBelle is known for her unique writing style and profound insights into life. more

“Whether on the floor of Congress or in the boardrooms of corporate America or in the corridors of a big city hospital, there is no body of professional expertise and no anthology of case studies which can supplant the force of character which provides both a sense of direction and a means of fulfillment. It asks, not what you want to be, but who you want to be.”

“One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of community, who do their work creditably and accept individual responsibility, are building the common future.”

May Character Individual Community Common Responsibility Accepting Millions Building Standards Exemplary Individual Responsibility

Author:John W. Gardner

“What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.”

Character Action Development Tests Reactions Daily Life Progressive Turmoil Bustle Action And Reaction Test Of Character

Book:Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

“To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities, to be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness-these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the man.”

Persons Character Action Kindness Struggle Sacrifice Color Products Notes Charity Trials Temptation Unselfishness Others Struggles

Author:John Ross Macduff

“Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.”

Wells Persons Has Beens Character Journey Depends Rough Times

Book:A jockey's life: the biography of Lester Piggott

Source: A jockey's life: the biography of Lester Piggott

“It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans didn't work, but because their character flaws undercut those plans. Whether the microphone caught them making racist comments or their greed overcame their common sense, who they were as people made all the difference-more than their résumés, their degrees, or even their past successes. If you fail at the art of being human and staying human, you recklessly court disaster.”