Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Good moral character is the first essential in a man.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way.
Character is power.
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Character is what you are in the dark.
In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever... You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you cant buy courage and decency, you cant rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him. He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nonetheless, a vision of the future he wishes to create.. But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't have the character - the courage and heart - to see it through.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.
Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.
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