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    Joyce Meyer
    “Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
    ― Joyce Meyer
    tags: character, conscience, duty
    503 likes

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    Elbert Hubbard
    “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: faith, god, wisdom
    5207 likes

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    Seneca
    “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: adversity, challenges, character, inspirational
    1004 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135508 likes

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    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: meaning-of-life
    5290 likes

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    John Wooden
    “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.”
    ― John Wooden
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, character, inspirational, self-image
    1416 likes

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  • #7
    Penn Jillette
    “Read everything and be kind.”
    ― Penn Jillette
    tags: advice-for-daily-living
    30 likes

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  • #8
    George R.R. Martin
    “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: hurt, pain, perfect, truthful
    5134 likes

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  • #9
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: inspiration, motivation
    3627 likes

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  • #10
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    1230 likes

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  • #11
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “To find a man's true character, play golf with him. ”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: golf
    61 likes

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  • #12
    Carl Sandburg
    “A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”
    ― Carl Sandburg
    tags: children, hope, religion
    1611 likes

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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44320 likes

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  • #14
    “I don't stop when I am tired, I stop when I am done”
    ― James Bond
    tags: determination, perserverance, persistence
    25 likes

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    Brian Tracy
    “Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”
    ― Brian Tracy
    tags: be-yourself, life, remaining-silent, reticence, wisdom
    1604 likes

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    John Wooden
    “The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”
    ― John Wooden
    436 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: carpe-diem, character, death, life, mindfulness, perfection, strength-of-character
    484 likes

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  • #18
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: philosophy, spiritual
    416 likes

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  • #19
    Seneca
    “All cruelty springs from weakness.”
    ― Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
    tags: behavior, character, cruelty, weakness
    1149 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “Men of few words are the best men."

    (3.2.41)”
    ― William Shakespeare, Henry V
    tags: character, expression, speaking, taciturnity, words
    128 likes

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    Arthur Machen
    “silence is not weakness and decency is not pride”
    ― Arthur Machen
    tags: character, strength
    67 likes

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  • #22
    Annie Besant
    “Thought creates character.”
    ― Annie Bessant
    tags: character
    25 likes

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  • #23
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
    109285 likes

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  • #24
    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
    18683 likes

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    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
    17495 likes

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    Herbert Bayard Swope
    “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
    ― Herbert Bayard Swope
    tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success
    11416 likes

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  • #27
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I always advise people never to give advice.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: advice
    430 likes

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  • #28
    Rick Warren
    “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
    ― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
    tags: humility
    1782 likes

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    Oprah Winfrey
    “True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: forgiveness, gratitude
    1986 likes

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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: saint-sinner
    8925 likes



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