“Your character is whatever you are when nobody is watching.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“To love even when it hurts, to speak truth when it's not trending, that's the sign of character.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Vulgarity is not boldness; it is confidence without depth.”
“When everything is done for clout, nothing is done for character.”
“Ambition becomes dangerous when it outruns character.”
“Build deliberately. Everything else id just effort”
Source: The Deliberate Architect: A Trinity of Wisdom for a Life of Effectiveness, Integrity, and Fortitude
“Her thoughts were silently fixed on the irreparable injury which too early an independence and its consequent habits of idleness, dissipation, and luxury, had made in the mind, the character, the happiness, of a man who, to every advantage of person and talents, united a disposition naturally open and honest, and a feeling, affectionate temper. The world had made him extravagant and vain—Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its own guilty triumph at the expense of another, had involved him in a real attachment, which extravagance, or at least its offspring, necessity, had required to be sacrificed. Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise to punishment.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.”
Source: A Shropshire Lad
“Strictness to oneself joined with tenderness towards others, forms a truly excellent character. But for the most part, the man who is mild towards others, will be so towards himself, and he who is severe towards himself will be the same towards others; a character which is tender towards itself and severe towards others, is of all the most contemptible.”
Source: On The Aesthetic Education Of Man
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