The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and ;Independence.

By Edward Rickenbacker

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

By FranÇOis De La Rochefoucauld

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.

By Jean Paul Richter

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

By W. Somerset Maugham

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Character is what you are in the dark.

By Dwight Moody

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Bluntness is a virtue.

By Allison Ling

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It's good to shut up sometimes.

By Marcel Marceau

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

By G. C. Lichtenberg

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A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.

By Ken Keys

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

By Martin Luther King Jr.

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Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

By Alphonse Karr

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Man's character is his fate.

By Heraclitus

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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.

By John Holt

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To measure the man, measure his heart.

By Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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

By Robert Freeman

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What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

By Benjamin Disraeli

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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By Henry Clay

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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.

By Thomas Carlyle

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