"Character
is the ability to follow through on a resolution long
after the emotion with which it was made has passed."
-– Brian Tracy
"Our
character is basically a composite of our habits. Because
they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they
constantly, daily, express our character..." -- Stephen
Covey
"Ability
may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep
you there." -- John
Wooden
"Character
is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong
to live as well to think." --
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Adversity
is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us
better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens
our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict
with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and
compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will
not suffer us to be superficial." --
Edmund Burke
"Nearly
all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a
man's character, give him power." -- Abraham
Lincoln
"Weakness
of attitude becomes weakness of character." --
Albert Einstein
"I
care not what others think of what I do, but I care very
much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"It
is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best
reveals his character." -- Arthur
Schopenhauer
"Fame
is what you have taken, character is what you give. When
to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live." --
Bayard Taylor
"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
"To
compose our character is our duty, not to compose books,
and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility
in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece
is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling,
hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props,
at most." -– Michel
Eyquem de Montaign
"Character
is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the
alters of conformity and popularity." -– William
Arthur Ward
"If
it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not
say it." -- Marcus
Aurelius
"Never
give in! Never, never, never, never give in. Never
-- in anything great or small, large or petty -- never
give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."
-- Winston Churchill
"I
love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather
strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose
heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct,
will pursue his principles unto death." -- Thomas
Paine
"The
measure of a man's character is what he would do if he
knew he never would be found out." -- Thomas
B. Macaulay
"The
beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure
one heavy mischance after another, not because he does
not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic
temper." -- Aristotle
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