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Character

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.