"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on character
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"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on character
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"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on character
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"Do what you know and perception is converted into character."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on character
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"Character is the sum and total of a person's choices."

Fitzwater, P. B. on character
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"I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be."

Forster, Edward M. on character   

"You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these."

Francis, Clarence on character
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"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

Frank, Anne on character
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"Human improvement is from within outward."

Froude, James A. on character
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"Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character."

Gill, Vince on character   

"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on character   

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on character
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"The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on character   

"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on character   

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."

Goldsmith, Oliver on character
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"When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head."

Guideposts on character
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"Man's character is his fate."

Heraclitus on character
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"Character is our destiny."

Heraclitus on character
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"Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time."

Hubbard, Elbert on character
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"Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have."

Karr, Alphonse on character   

"By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character."

Kleiser, Grenville on character   

"Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good."

Landers, Ann on character
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"You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on character
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"Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on character   

"To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character."

Leneru, Marie on character   

"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."

Lincoln, Abraham on character
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"In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on character   

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"Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it."

Lubbock, Sir John on character   

"While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize."

Mason, John L. on character
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"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

Michener, James A. on character   

"A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is."

Miner, Jack on character
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"If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it."

Mohammed on character
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"Character is what you are in the dark."

Moody, Dwight L. on character
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"Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us."

Paine, Thomas on character
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"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."

Plato on character
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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."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on character
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"Character is simply habit long continued."

Plutarch on character
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"I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself."

Peter The Great on character   

"Some people are born hammers, others anvils."

Proverb on character   

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s."

Richter, Jean Paul on character
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