Showing posts with label character. Show all posts
Showing posts with label character. Show all posts

Sunday, November 26, 2023

Post #3205

Character is simply habit long enough continued.
—Plutarch

Sunday, August 20, 2023

Post #3190

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.
—José Ortega y Gasset

Sunday, July 10, 2022

Post #3132

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing, If you lose your health, you have lost something, But if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
—Woodrow Wilson

Sunday, May 03, 2020

Post #3017

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
—Malcolm S. Forbes

Sunday, April 19, 2020

Post #3015

Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another.
—Jean Paul Richter

Monday, January 06, 2020

Post #2996

Happiness is not the end of life ; character is.
―Henry Ward Beecher

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Post #2944

You must look into people as well as at them.
—Lord Chesterfield

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Post #2943

 Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
—Miguel de Cervantes

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Post #2492

Be good and you will be lonesome.
―Mark Twain

Be lonesome and you will be free
Live a lie and you will live to regret it
That's What Living is to Me.
―Jimmy Buffett

Wednesday, October 05, 2016

Post #2178

Manners carry the world for the moment; character, for all time.
—Jean de La Bruyère

Friday, July 01, 2016

Post #2110

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Post #2034

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
—George Washington

Monday, February 22, 2016

Post #2016

Upright and do right make all right.
—Robert Waln

Friday, January 22, 2016

Post #1995

Character is like stock in trade; the more of it a man possesses, the greater his facilities for making additions to it. Character is power — is influence; it makes friends; creates funds; draws patronage and support; and opens a pure and easy way to wealth, honor, and happiness. 
—Dr. Joel Hawes

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Post #1913

Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.
—Sir J. Stephen

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Post #1483

Character gives splendor to youth and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday, January 09, 2014

Post #1454

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.
—John Leonard

Friday, November 15, 2013

Post #1405

Character, like porcelain ware, must be printed before it is glazed. There can be no change after it is burned in.
—Henry Ward Beecher

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Post #1343

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.
—John Ruskin

Friday, August 09, 2013

Post #1315

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
—Sydney Smith

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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