This document discusses the importance of character and its various attributes. It states that character is the noblest possession and the foundation of personal excellence. Some key aspects of strong character mentioned include truthfulness, self-control, courage, energy, perseverance, discipline, duty, and manners. It emphasizes that character is developed through continuous effort, overcoming challenges, and withstanding life's difficulties and trials.

1. CHARACTER
Samuel Smiles

2. • Unless above himself he can,
Erect himself,how poor thing is a man (Daniel)

3. • Without an honest manly heart,no man was
worth regarding..
• Character is property. It is the noblest of
possessions.
• Without principles, a man is like a ship
without rudder or compass,left to drift hither
an thither with every wind that blows

4. • Truthfulness is at the foundation of all
personal excellence

5. • In the affairs of life, or of business,it is not intellect that
tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart,
not genius so much as self control,patience and
discipline,regulated by judgment.

6. • The man of character is conscientious. He puts
his conscience into his work,into his
words,into his every action.

7. • Energy of will,self originating force,is the soul of
every great character. Where it is ,there is
life,where it is not,there is faintness,helplessness
and despondency

8. • The man dies and disappears,but his thoughts
and acts survive
• Character,embodied in thought and deed,is of
the nature of immortality..

9. • To have a character , man must needs also be
reverential,disciplined,self controlling ,and
devoted to duty..

10. • The greatness of a country does not depend
upon the extent of its territory,but on the
character of its people.

11. • Where it ceases to esteem and to practice the
virtues of truthfulness,honesty and integrity,and
justice,it does not deserve to live..

12. • The millstreams that turn the clappers of the
world arise in solitary places

13. • Civilisation mainly reselves itself into a
question of individual training

14. • The training of the character is in progress of the
temper,the will,and the habits on which so much
of the happiness of human beings in after-life
depends

15. Dis moi qui t’admire,et je dirai qui tu es
Example is the school of mankind
Remember,resemble,persevere

16. • Arise therefore and be doing,and the lord be with you..
• C’est par le travail qu’on regne

17. • Work is one of the best educators of practical
character.It evokes and disciplines obedience,self
control,attention,application,and perseverance;
giving a man deftness and skill in his special
calling,and aptitude and dexterity in dealing in
dealing with the affairs of ordinary life.

18. • Indolence is equally degrading to individuals as to
nations. Sloth never made its mark in the
world,and never will. Indolence always failed in
life,and always will.It is in the nature of things that
it should not succeed in anything.It is a burden,an
incumbrance,and a nuissance,always
useless,complaining,melancholy,and miserable

19. • The true happiness is never found in torpor of the
faculties,but in their action and useful
employment. It is indolence that exhausts,not
action,in which there is life,health,and pleausure

20. • You can not escape from anxiety and labour,it is the
destiny of humanity..
• It is true ,there are men who die of overwork,but
many more die of selfishness,indulgence and
idleness..

21. • Constant useful occupation is thus
wholesome,not only for the body,but for the
mind.

22. • VITA SINE LITARIS MORS EST
• TOUJOURS AU TRAVAIL..

23. • The greatest geniuses have without exception ,been
the greatest workers,even to the extent of drudgery.
• Power belong only to the workers,the idlers are always
powerless.

24. • It is the laborious and painstaking men who
are the rulers of the world.

25. • Montaigne has said of the true
philosophers,that if they were great in
science,they were yet much greater in action.

26. • It is not but the tempest that doth show the
seaman’s cunning,but the field that tries the
captain’s courage,and we come to know Best
what men are,in their worst jeopardies..

27. • The courage that displays itself in silent effort and
endeavour that dares to endure all and suffer all for
truth and duty,more truly heroic than the
achievements of physical valour,which are rewarded
by honours and titles,or by laurels sometimes
steeped in blood.

28. • Calling upon others for help in forming a decision
is worse than useless. A man must so train his
habits as to rely upon his own powers nd depend
upon his own courage in moments of emergency.

29. • It is the strong and courageous men who lead and
guide and rule the world.
• Courage,combined with energy and perseverance,will
overcome difficulties apparently insurmountable

30. • Energy and temperament,with a moderate
degree of wisdom,will carry a man further
than any amount of intellect without it.

31. • The government of one’s self is the only true
freedom for the individual.
• Self-control is only courage under another form.

32. • To be moraly free-to be more than an animal-
man must be able resist instinctive impulse,and
this can only be done by the exercise of self-
control.

33. • The most self-reliant,self governing man is always
under discipline: and the more perfect the
discipline,the higher will be his moral condition.

34. • It is by patience and self control that the truly
heroic character is perfected.

35. • The mouth of a wise man, is in his heart, the
heart of a fool is in his mouth.
• Be silent or say something better than silence

36. • Life will always be, to a great extend,what we
ourselves make it.
• Human life to each of us,it is for the most
part,but the reflection of ourselves..

37. • Strict adherence to even the smallest details
of morality is the foundation of all manly and
noble character..

38. • Not lose my temper,if possible,at any time,and
never during the hours of business..

39. • I slept ,and dreamt that life was beauty,
• I woke and found that life was duty..

40. • To live really is to act energetically
• Life is a battle to be fought valiantly

41. • The valiant good man is he ,who by the resolute
exercise of his freewill,has so disciplined himself
as to have acquired the habit of virtue..

42. • Duty is closely allied to truthfulness of character;
and the dutiful man is,above all things,truthful in
his words as in his actions..
• He says and he does the right thing,in the right
way and the right time..

43. • Whose armour is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost skill,

44. • Manners are not idle,but the fruit,
Of noble nature and of loyal mind,

45. • We must be gentle,now we are gentlemen.
(Shakespeare)

46. • There is a common saying,manners make the
man
• A man’s manner to a certain extent,indicates his
character.

47. • The truest politeness comes of sincerity
• Tact is an intuitive artof manner,which carries
one through a difficulty better.

48. • Practical wisdom is only to be learnt in the
school of experience

49. • To be worth anyting,character must be capable of
standing firm upon its feet in the world of daily
work,temptation,and trial and able to bear the
wear and tear of actual life.

50. • The brave man will not be baffled,but tries
and tries again until he succeeds

51. • The lives of some of the greatest men have
been a continuous struggle with difficulty and
apparent defeat..