Act with Honor & Respect Quotes
How you treat people when nothing is at stake is who you actually are. Honor and respect open doors that talent alone cannot keep open. This Character path holds history's deepest quotes on integrity, kindness, and respect. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be.”
“Be strong, but not rude. Be kind, but not weak. Be bold, but not a bully.”
“Work on your character, let life fall into place.”
“The first thing is character before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it. A man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom.”
“Image is what people think we are; integrity is what we really are.”
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
“Character is a set of dispositions, desires, and habits that are slowly engraved during the struggle against your own weakness.”
“Character, not circumstances, makes the man.”
“Masculinity ought to be defined in terms of relationships and lived out in being able to love and be loved.”
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
“Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
“He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well.'”
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
“And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?”
“I praise loudly; I blame softly.”
“Trust, but verify.”
“A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.”
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
“We can do more good by being good than in any other way.”
“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”
“To belittle is to be little.”
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
“The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
“Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.”
“If nothing goes forth from you that can hurt, nothing can return to you that can harm.”
“You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.”
“If we all lived eye for an eye, we'd all be blind.”
“No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.”
“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”
“Always be a little kinder than necessary.”
“Do all things with love.”
“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
“Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.”
“Always remember that every person you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.”
“My true religion is kindness.”
“No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.”
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.”
“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
“In this life we cannot always do great things, but we can do small things with great love.”
“Give a good deed the credit of a good motive, and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.”
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
“The great ones are always courteous and kind.”
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