1) A person's reputation depends on how others perceive them based on their actions, whereas their character is defined by who they are on the inside and will last into eternity.
2) Successful people are characterized by taking action and learning from mistakes rather than giving up in the face of challenges.
3) While talents grow best in solitary reflection, character is strengthened through navigating real-world difficulties and interactions with others.
3. ‘Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving. They make
mistakes, but they don’t quit.’
4. Talents are best nurtured in solitude.
Character is best formed in the stormy
billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
5. Our character is but the stamp on our
souls of the free choices of good and
evil we have made through life.
John C. Geikie
6. Most people give up when they’re about to
achieve success. They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute on the game on
foot from a winning touchdown.
-H. Ross Perot
7. The only medicine for
suffering, crime, and all the other woes
of mankind, is wisdom.
Thomas Huxley
8. Believe with all of your heart that
you will do what you were made to
do.
Orison Swett Marden
9. We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our
souls.
Winston Churchill
10. Nothing great was ever achieved
without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson