Character is destiny -- The unexamined life is not worth living -- Character is what you are in the dark -- The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands -- Character is higher than intellect -- Excellence is habit -- Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, fix your thoughts on such things -- To enjoy the things we ought to enjoy . . . has the greatest bearing on excellence of character -- No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things -- Example is not the main thing in life, it is the only thing -- A man never describes his own character so clearly as when he describes another's -- You can follow all the rules and still be unethical
Sow a thought, reap an act; sow an act, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny -- I have found who is responsible for our ethical poverty, and it is I.
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