Saturday, February 12, 2011

Nouns of Character


honesty
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.


integrity
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." -- Samuel Johnson

reliability
"The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends." -- Cicero

determination
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination."
Winston Churchill Famous Determination Quote:
"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."


common sense
"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


trustworthiness
"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him." --Booker T. Washington


confidence
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too."
--David Storey

ambition
"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do." -- Robert Browning


"Ambition can creep as well as soar." -- Edmund Burke







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