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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus
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Character, not circumstances, make the man.

Booker T. Washington
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Character is power. -Booker T. Washington
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

George Washington
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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. -Seneca
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain; but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Dale Carnegie
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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself. -Lois McMaster Bujold
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

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

Hermann Hesse
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. -Oscar Levant
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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.

Heraclitus Of Ephesus
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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

Carl Rogers
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We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed. -Henry David Thoreau
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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.

Cicero
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham
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It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. -Dale E. Turner
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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus
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A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.

Charles Horton Cooley
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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. -George Santayana
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You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

Austin O'Malley
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Problem is there are too many sissies and prima donnas -- stop talking and get it done.

Orlando Mcguire
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Character is long-standing habit. -Plutarch
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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Francis Bacon, Sr.
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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson
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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. -Thomas Sowell
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