Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
	- Henry David Thoreau

Your habits determine your character, and your character 
fixes your destiny. Your habits are either the best of servants 
or the worst of masters. 
	- Nikita Koloff

When duty calls, that is when character counts.
	- William L. Safire

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong
to live as well as think.
	- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and
forge yourself one.
	- James A. Froude

Character like a photograph, develops in darkness.
	- Yousef Karsh

Nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words
and actions for their character.
	- Robert Musil

Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
	- Frank Outlaw

Characters live to be noticed. People with character notice 
how they live.
      - Nancy Moser

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for 
one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.
	- Joan Didion

Character isn't inherited.
	- Helen Gahagan Douglas

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

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; 
actions form habits; habits decide 
character; and character fixes our destiny.
	- Tyron Edwards

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved 
you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget
-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not 
on marble.
	- Charles Spurgeon

Character is like a tree and reputation a shadow. The
 shadow is what we think of it; the tree is 
the real thing.
        - Abraham Lincoln

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if 
they met on the street.
        - Elbert Hubbard

The best index to a person's character is [a] how he treats 
people who can't do him any good, and [b] how he treats 
people who can't fight back. 
	- Abigail Van Buren 

A person reveals his character by nothing so 
clearly as the joke he resents.
        - G. C. Lichtenberg

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth
in action; actions form habits; habits decide 
character; and character fixes our destiny.
        - Tyron Edwards

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning
of what he is doing, will know how to discover 
theethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
        - Earl Warren (1891-1974) US politician, jurist

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he 
describes another's.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession 
of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away 
with the need for character in the individual or the ability 
to think.
- Bernard M. Barunch

The discipline of desire is the background of character.
- John Locke (1632-1704)

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full 
current of human life.
        - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Character is what you are in the dark!
- Lord John Whorfin

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable 
combination.
        - Nelson Mandela

It is by no means certain that our individual personality 
is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... 
We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. 
Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.
        - Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Guardian Angel

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself,
to become what he potentially is.  The most important 
product of his effort is his own personality.
        - Erich Fromm, Man for Himself

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in 
the flint.
        - J. B. Yeats


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