Explore · 30 sayings
Character & Will
“Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”
“Hard as steel and soft as a flower is the motto.”
“He who knows how to obey knows how to command. Learn obedience first.”
“Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man. Strictly moral, brave unto desperation.”
“Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.”
“Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.”
“Too much sentiment hurts work. 'Hard as steel and soft as a flower' is the motto.”
“A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men can do more in a year than a mob in a century.”
“Nothing shall be done in haste. Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.”
“What we want is character, that steadiness and character that make a man cling on to a thing like grim death.”
“It is the patient upbuilding of character, the intense struggle to realise the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.”
“Build up your character, and manifest your real nature, the Effulgent, the Resplendent, the Ever-Pure, and call It up in everyone that you see.”
“Neither money pays, nor name, nor fame, nor learning; it is character that can cleave through adamantine walls of difficulties. Bear this in mind.”
“Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and an all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionised.”
“The road to the Good is the roughest and steepest in the universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed, no wonder that so many fall.”
“Money does not pay, nor name; fame does not pay, nor learning. It is love that pays; it is character that cleaves its way through adamantine walls of difficulties.”
“If a man with an ideal makes a thousand mistakes, I am sure that the man without an ideal makes fifty thousand. Therefore, it is better to have an ideal.”
“One man who manifests the ideal in his life is more powerful than legions whose words can paint it in the most beautiful colours and spin out the finest principles.”
“Learn to think without prejudice, to love all beings for love's sake, to express your convictions fearlessly, to lead a life of purity, and the sunlight of truth will illuminate you.”
“Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.”
“It is character that pays everywhere.”
“Always evil comes out of laziness.”
“Be pure, have faith, be obedient.”
“Patience, purity, and perseverance will prevail.”
“Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness.”
“Every new thought must create opposition.”
“Practice makes us what we shall be.”
“Upon ages of struggle a character is built.”
“Jealousy is a vice necessarily generated in slaves.”
“Death for the cause is our goal, not success.”