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- Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.
- John Oliver Hobbes
- Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
- Alvin Toffler
- Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both
- Author Unknown
- Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity
- John Ballantine Gough
- Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
- John Howe
- No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.
- Jack Miner
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