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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
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Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
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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.
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
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''To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
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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. Baruch
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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.
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