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Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.
Thomas Paine
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
Kurt Vonnegut
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
Thomas C. Haliburton
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.
Mahatma Gandhi
They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
James Russell Lowell
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
To exercise good character daily is to be morally fit for life.
Karen Hartz, CHARACTER COUNTS! i
Character is victory organized.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
Abraham Lincoln
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Stephen Covey
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.
Jane Austen
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
Horace
A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Manly Hall
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Anthony Robbins
