Character

 

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller (1880-1968)

 

Fortune Favors the brave

 

Sow a thought and you reap an action;
sow an act and you reap a habit;
sow a habit and you reap a character;
sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Virgil (70 BCE-19BCE) , Aeneid

 

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.
The content of your character is your choice.
Day by day, what you do is who you become.
Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.
Heraclitus

 

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf