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Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
, clergyman
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
, philosopher
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
, poet
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
, author
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
, author
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
, president
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
, actor
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
, author
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
, writer
Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for.
, critic
You are creating through your choices, even now. Choose wisely.
, poet
We should come home from adventures and perils and discoveries with new experiences and character.
, author
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he gives and receives praise.
, statesman
Be congruent, be authentic and be yourself.
, leader
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
, leader
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
, president
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.
, author
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
, poet
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
, coach
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
, leader
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
, physicist
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
, writer
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
, novelist
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
, leader
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
, philosopher
A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.
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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
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Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
, writer
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
, dramatist
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
, president
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
, poet
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
, motivational speaker
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
, actor
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
, philosopher
Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day.
, philosopher
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
, statesman
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
, poet
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
, clergyman
A person born to be a flower pot will not go beyond the porch.
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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
, poet
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
, author
Character is what you are in the dark.
, clergyman
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
, writer
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
, athlete
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
, actress
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
, president
Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.
, writer
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
, leader
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
, philosopher
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
, poet
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
, writer
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
, educator
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
, poet
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
, poet
Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.
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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
, educator
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
, writer
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
, journalist
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
, dramatist
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
, author
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
, poet
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
, writer
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
, businessman
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
, philosopher
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
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Character is power.
, educator
All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.
, actor
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
, writer
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
, actress
A man's character is his guardian divinity.
, philosopher
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
, theologian
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
, entertainer
It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
, educator
It's good to shut up sometimes.
, actor
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
, author
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
, writer
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
, president
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.
, coach
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.
, leader
Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
, actress
Perfection of character consists in this; living each day as if it were the last, and spending each moment in peace.
, emperor
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
, poet
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
, historian
Human improvement is from within outward.
, historian
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
, writer
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
, critic
There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles
, author
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
, scientist
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
, writer
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
, philosopher
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
, playwright
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
, novelist
Character is simply habit long continued.
, philosopher
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
, philosopher
The test of any man's character is how he takes praise.
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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.
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All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
, writer
It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
, actress
I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
, writer
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
, philosopher
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
, theologian
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
, philosopher
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7
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To measure the man, measure his heart.
, entrepreneur
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
, poet
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
, editor
Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
, writer
Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
, critic
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
, playwright
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
, coach
If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
, novelist
Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.
, author
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
, poet
Character is destiny.
, philosopher
I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.
, actor
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
, theologian
Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
, statesman
You must look into people, as well as at them.
, statesman
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
, philosopher
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
, businessman
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
, statesman
To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.
, educator
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
, poet
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
, poet
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
, philosopher
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
, historian
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
, author
Character is a victory, not a gift.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
, poet
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
, novelist
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
, actor
I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.
, actress
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
, poet
I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.
, actor
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
, author
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
, president
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
, public servant
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