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George M. Adams

Among the many attributions found for this: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Andre Maurois, Charles Reade, Buddist Proverb, Samuel Smiles, James Allen, George D. Boardman, and Francis E. Willard

Bo Bennett

Character is the salesperson???s stock in trade. The product itself is secondary. Truthfulness, enthusiasm and patience are great assets to every salesperson. Without them, they couldn???t go far. Courage and courtesy are essential equipment.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.

Charles R. Brown

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

Lillian Hellman

To exercise good character daily is to be morally fit for life.

Agatha Christie

Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day.

Ken Keys

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Ellen G. White

The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themseleves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest. Difficult tasks are a priviledge to them; t

Theodore White

In order to form correct habits, we should seek the company of persons of sound moral and religious influence. We should constantly bear in mind that we may be fitting to inhabit the heavenly courts. The precious hours of probation are granted that we may

Bill Wilson

No fate could rob us of our own-- No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For what was ours we still possess.

Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

J. C. Watts

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

Elias Boudinot

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

Cicero

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.

Anne Besant

Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Samuel Smiles

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...

Tryon Edwards

Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.

John Wooden

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

George Dana Boardman

Sow an act...reap a habit Sow a habit...reap a character Sow a character...reap a destiny.

Anon.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

Charles Reade

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Patrick Overton

Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.

Unknown

Character is what you are when no one is looking.

Heraclitus

A man's character is his fate.

Booker T. Washington

Character is power.

Stendhal

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Hebrew Proverb

A rich man has no need of character.

Anon.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is what can do without success.

Heywood

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Ranjan

A person without character is just as body without soul.

John Wooden

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Evan Esar

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.

Unknown

Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.

Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

John Holt

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

Elbert Hubbard

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Ronald Reagan

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

James A. Froude

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Dag Hammarskjld

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

Johann von Goethe

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

James Albert Michener

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Johann von Goethe

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Rose Dorothy Freeman

Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

W. Somerset Maugham

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

Lillian Hellman

To exercise good character daily is to be morally fit for life.

Lord John Whorfin

History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.

Confucius

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Lin Yutang

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Alfred Hitchcock

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

Marie Leneru

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel is no doubts about oneself is something very different it is character.

Faith Baldwin

Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Johann von Goethe

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

Lin Yutang

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.

Henry Clay

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Peter De Vries

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

W. Somerset Maugham

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Henry David Thoreau

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

James Russell Lowell

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time

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.

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

I was going to sue for defamation of character, but then I realised I have no character.

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.

Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.

Character is who you are when no one is looking.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Character is what you are in the dark.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.

One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.

Freedom and indedendence form my character.

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

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

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

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

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

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

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

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.