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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Leon Trotsky
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle
My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character, he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.
Samuel Johnson
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
Horace Greeley
That proves it's not by Shaw, because all Shaw's characters are himself: mere puppets stuck up to spout Shaw.
George Bernard Shaw
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
J. August Strindberg
My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.
Earl of Arran
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Plautus
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
John L. Mason
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Chinese Proverb
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
John Howe
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Fred Astaire
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
John Atkinson
To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.
George Washington, in a letter t
The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
Roy L. Smith
