“ Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 663
“ Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
- 135
“ People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. ”
- Eleanor Roosevelt- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. ”
- Elihu Burritt- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. ”
- Elmer G. Letterman- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to flexible at all times. ”
- Everett Mckinley Dirkson- Copy
- 851
“ In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. ”
- Francis Thompson- Copy
- 4K
“ A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
- 1.9K
“ 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. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 1.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. ”
- Henry Clay- Copy
- 3.1K
“ People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. ”
- Hermann Hesse- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character. ”
- Isabelle Eberhardt- Copy
- 2.9K
“ You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. ”
- James A. Froude- Copy
- 2.3K
“ 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. ”
- James Fenimore Cooper- Copy
- 2K
“ Character consists of what you do on the third and forth tries. ”
- James Mechener- Copy
- 155
“ When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ”
- Japanese proverb- Copy
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“ Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs. ”
- Joan Didion- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 123
“ One can acquire everything in solitude - except character. ”
- Marie Henri Beyle- Copy
- 1.7K
“ To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character. ”
- Marie Leneru- Copy
- 454
“ I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. ”
- Nathaniel Emmons- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
- 3.6K
“ 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. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
- 2.2K
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