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Revealing the Importance of
Good Character
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From some of these Character Quotes below, you could figure out first the meaning or definition of character according to some great and wise men in human history.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Character is simply habit long continued.
~ Plutarch
Character is what you are in the dark.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Character is the firm 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.
~ R.C. Samsel
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Character is power, it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
~ J.Howe
Character is a victory, not a gift.
~ Anonymous
There is nothing more important in our lives than the good character describes by these character quotes:
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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
~ Billy Graham
Character is not inherited. We have to train and discipline ourselves to build it.
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
~ Helen Douglas
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
~ Jim Rohn
You cannot dream yourself into a character, you must hammer and forge yourself one.
~ James A. Froude
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
~ Helen Keller
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
~ Heraclitus
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Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
~ Albert Einstein
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
~ Mohandas Gandhi
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
~ Abigail van Buren
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage and determination.
~ John Luther
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Sow an act and you rap a habit.
Sow a habit and you reap a character.
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
~ Charles Reade
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
~ Dale Carnegie
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.
~ Rita Mero
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
~ Elmer G. Letterman
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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
~ Henry Clay
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted.
~ Alfred Adler
Ability can take you the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
~ Zig Ziglar
Reputation is what the world thinks a man is; character is what he really is.
~ Anonymous
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
~ Phillips Brooks
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
~ Woodrow T. Wilson
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.
~ John W. Holt, Jr.
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
~ Anonymous
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
~ J. C. Watts
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.
~ John W. Holt, Jr.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
~ J. C. Watts
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
~ Confucius
Character, not circumstance, makes the person.
~ Booker T. Washington
Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The qualities of a great man are "vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
~ Dwight Eisenhower
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
~ Horace Greeley
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
~ Anonymous
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
~ Alan Simpson
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
~ Thomas Jefferson
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