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| A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious. | | Graham Greene | |
| A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's | | Jean Paul Richter | |
| A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him | | Frederick Douglass | |
| Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. | | Dale Carnegie | |
| 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. | | Dale Carnegie | |
| Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. | | Walter Lippmann | |
| Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. | | Helen Keller | |
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| Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. | | Woodrow T. Wilson | |
| Character is a stamp of good repute on a person. | | Euripides | |
| Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| 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 like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing: I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have l | | Abraham Lincoln | |
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| Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids | | Aristotle | |
| Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. | | George Santayana | |
| Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. | | Theodore Roosevelt | |
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