"The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character."

Character, Benefits, Journey, Moments

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"The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character."

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"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"He was one of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good feelings. What little he told of his personal life vouched for acts of kindness and a capacity for affection that no one in our times dares own to."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Integrity is an eternal virtue we should focus our mind on and not miracles."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."

David Levithan, American Author

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"Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr."

Cassandra Peterson, American Comedian

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"Character is what can do without success."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."

Impression

"We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life."

Life

"Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end."

Travel

"The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them."

Perspective

"The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons."

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"When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his."

Friendship

"From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide."

Life

"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."

Imagination

"I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?"

Man

"Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance."

Time