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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. -- Albert Einstein
Character is much easier kept than recovered. -- Thomas Paine
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. -- Albert Einstein
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. -- James A. Michener
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. -- Mark Twain
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. -- John Wooden
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Character is destiny -- Heracl*tus
Character matters; leadership descends from character. -- Rush Limbaugh
Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow. -- Abraham Lincoln
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. -- J. C. Watts
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. -- Sam Ewing
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. -- Helen Keller
Character is fate. -- Sylvia Plath
Character is power. -- Booker T. Washington
Character is contagious. -- Wayde Goodall
Character isn't inherited. -- Helen Gahagan Douglas
Character + Chance = Success -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
Character is our destiny. -- Heracl*tus
Character is inured habit. -- Plutarch
Character is the salesperson -- George Madison Adams
Character is fate. (Destiny). -- Heracl*tus
Character comes before scholarship. -- Margaret Ayer Barnes
Character is victory organized. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Character calls forth character. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character is long-standing habit. -- Plutarch
Character demonstrates itself in trifles. -- Louise Imogen Guiney
Character is perfectly educated will. -- Novalis
Character is revealed through action. -- Aristotle
Character is the best security. -- Margaret Ayer Barnes
Character teaches above our wills. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is ethics in action. -- Michael Josephson
Character makes its own destiny. -- Rosa Campbell Praed
Character is itself a fortune. -- Samuel Smiles
Character, not circ*mstances, makes the man. -- Booker T. Washington
Character is a perfectly educated will. -- Novalis
Character is more important than talent. -- Edwin Louis Cole
Character is standing tall and guiding others. -- Saru Singhal
Dreams are the touchstones of our character. -- Henry David Thoreau
Character: the grandest thing in the world. -- Orison Swett Marden
Character is a journey, not a destination. -- William J. Clinton
Character is the main object of education. -- Mary Wooley
Character is the architect of the being. -- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness. -- Yousuf Karsh
Character is the plot in many ways -- Junot Diaz
Character actors have a long shelf life. -- Dennis Christopher
Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters. -- Claire Danes
Character is the virtue of hard times. -- Charles de Gaulle
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. -- John Wooden
Character is determined by choice, not opinion. -- Aristotle
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. -- Helen Keller
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. -- Bruce Lee
Character develops itself in the stream of life. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character is the most precious gift of education. -- Sai Baba
Character is that which can do without success. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is what you do in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody
Character, I am sure, lies in the genes. -- Taylor Caldwell
Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody
Character is a wish for a perfect education. -- Novalis
Character is very much a matter of health. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Character must be kept bright as well as clean. -- Lord Chesterfield
Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction -- Donna Tartt
Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character is the only secure foundation of the state. -- Calvin Coolidge
Character is what you have when nobody is looking. -- Marie Dressler
Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him. -- J. G. Holland
Character alone will have real effect on the masses. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Character is what a man is in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody
Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow. -- Gail Sheehy
Character is just what we inwardly are and outwardly do. -- Sri Chinmoy
Character is not made by crisis. It is only exhibited. -- Robert Freeman
Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain. -- George Saunders
Character and fate are two words for the same thing. -- Novalis
Character is who you are when no one is looking. -- Allan Williams
Character and fate are two words for the same thing -- Novalis
Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person." -- Euripides
Character is what you do when no one is watching. -- Paul Rabil
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters -- Albert Einstein
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A fi bun inseamna a fi in armonie cu tine insuti. Disonanta inseamna a fi in armonie cu altii -- Oscar Wilde
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. -- Billy Graham
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. -- Anne Frank
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do. -- William Ellery Channing
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves. -- Leon Trotsky
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Character doesn't matter. -- William J. Clinton
Character contributes to beauty. -- Jacqueline Bisset
I was tired of being me. -- Rachel Ward
Character is plot, plot is character. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Character is simply habit long continued. -- Plutarch
Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
To measure the man, measure his heart. -- Malcolm Forbes
Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's". -- Seth MacFarlane
It's not the tailor that makes the man. -- Romanian Proverb
Your character is a reflection of your thoughts. -- Unarine Ramaru
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. -- Seneca
Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character. -- Jim George
The world loves talent but pays off on character. -- John W. Gardner
The measure of a man is what he does with power. -- Plato
Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way. -- William James Moore
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. -- Aristotle
A Rich Person Is One Who Does Not Want Any More Money -- Akhil Khanna
Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop. -- Charlotte Eriksson
If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all. -- George Bernard Shaw
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. -- Zig Ziglar
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. -- Mark Twain
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing -- Jim Rohn
Choices determine character. -- Brandon Mull
Thought creates character. -- Annie Bessant
With all due disrespect... -- Sir Topless Bottomley
Judge character by behavior. -- Lizelle DuPlessis
Honesty defines self respect. -- Unarine Ramaru
First character, then ability. -- Shinichi Suzuki

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