"Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices."

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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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"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"Allow your daily small acts of kindness to degenerate into a lifetime of human excellence."

Sravani Saha Nakhro, Indian 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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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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"The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth."

Philosophy

"We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge."

Society

"What one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet all the time. Conviction without experience makes for harshness."

Religion

"When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty."

Faith

"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."

Recognition

"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them."

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

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

"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."

"Allow your daily small acts of kindness to degenerate into a lifetime of human excellence."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"(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."

Explore more quotes by Flannery O'Connor

"The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth."

"We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge."

"When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty."

"If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you."

"Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me."

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

"Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them."

"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."

"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them."