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Quotes about character
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. (Cross David)
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. (Cross David)
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. (Cross David)
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. (Cross David)
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. (Cross David)
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. (Cross David)
Character matters; leadership descends from character. (Cross David)
Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked. (Cross David)
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Cross David)
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. (Cross David)
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. (Cross David)
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. (Cross David)
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. (Cross David)
They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak. (Cross David)
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. (Cross David)
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it. (Cross David)
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. (Cross David)
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. (Cross David)
It is well to think well. It is divine to act well. (Cross David)
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. (Cross David)
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize. (Cross David)
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. (Cross David)
Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered. (Cross David)
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. (Cross David)
He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; (Cross David)
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