Thoughts About Character, By Orison Swett Marden, published in 1910.

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Thoughts About Character (1910)

Book Facts... Thoughts About Character

Author:	Orison Swett Marden
Publisher:	Thomas Y. Crowell
Year Published:	1910
Number of Pages:	31
Number of Chapters:	One
Sub-Title:	None

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Selected Quotes From: Thoughts About Character

"What is Character? Is it not that sum of qualities which distinguishes one person from another?"
"Some people are born happy. No matter what their circumstances are, they are joyous, content, and satisfied with everything. They carry a perpetual holiday in their eyes and see joy and beauty everywhere."
"Money is not needful; power is not needful; liberty is not needful; even health is no the on thing needful; but character alone is that which can truly save us."
- Orison Swett Marden

Thoughts About Character
Key Points Include:

1. Character Is The Sum Of Qualities
2. Some People Are Born Happy
3. Stay On The Side Of Gentleness
4. There Is But One True Pursuit In Life
5. Akin To The Highest Beings In The Universe
6. Choosing Right With Invincible Resolution
7. Moral Courage Is Quick To Rebuke A Wrong
8. A Call To Be Upright, Pure And Generous
9. Character Is The Poor Man's Capital
10. Character Is Perpetual Wealth

Excerpt From the Self-Help Classic... Thoughts About Character

"'THE REAL BENEFACTORS OF MANKIND,' says Emerson, 'are the men and women who can raise their fellow-beings out of the world of money; who make them forget their bank account by interesting them in their higher selves; who can raise mere money-getters into the intellectual realm, where they will cease to measure greatness and happiness by dollars and cents; who can make men forget their stomachs and feast on being's banquet.'

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him. On the other hand, many a millionaire has impoverished the town in which he lived, and lessened the value of every foot of land.

What is character,but the poor man's capital? Is not character an available piece of property? Is it not estimated as moral security, the noblest of possessions? It is an estate in the general good will and respect of men; and they who invest in it will find their reward in esteem and reputation fairly and honorably won.

A good character is a precious thing, above rubies, gold, crowns, or kingdoms, and the work of making it is the noblest labor on earth. Money-getting has well been called unhealthy when it impoverishes the mind, or dries up the sources of the spiritual life; when it extinguishes the sense of beauty, and makes one indifferent to the wonders of nature and art; when it blunts the moral sense, and confuses the distinction between right and wrong, virtue and vice; when it stifles religious impulse, and blots all thoughts of Divinity from the soul.

'What is the measure of a nations true success?' asked Lowell. 'It is the amount it has contributed to the thought, the moral energy, the intellectual happiness, the spiritual hope and consolation of mankind.'

'No success in life,' says Frances E. Willard, 'is anything but an absolute failure, unless its purpose is to increase the sum of human good and happiness.'

The first requisite of all education and discipline should be moral character."

- Author, Orison Swett Marden
Thoughts About Character

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