Dissent, Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
-G. C. Lichtenberg
Character is a victory, not a gift.
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There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
-George Matthew Adams
Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
-Alphonse Karr
What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must look into people, as well as at them.
-Lord Chesterfield
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.
-Thomas Carlyle
Character is what you are in the dark.
-Dwight Moody
Let us not say, Every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, Every man is the architect of his own character.
-George Dana Boardman
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
-Benjamin Disraeli
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
-Edward Rickenbacker
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
-Henry Clay
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
-Jean Paul Richter
Character is not made in a crisis-it is only exhibited.
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