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Character
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them
adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a
man's character is, the better it fits him.
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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
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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.
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Elihu Burritt
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
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Elmer G. Letterman
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to flexible at all times.
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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that
destiny is likely to be.
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be
strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
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Isabelle Eberhardt
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the
chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of
character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to
policy.
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James Mechener
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
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Japanese Proverb
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is
character.
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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his
appointments.
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Nathaniel Emmons
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
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