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- Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), My Day
- Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
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