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.

About Henry Clay

Portrait of Henry Clay

Henry Clay (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American lawyer, statesman, and diplomat who represented Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. He was the seventh House speaker as well as the ninth secretary of state. Clay unsuccessfully ran for...

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Our character… is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

—Helen Keller

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

—George Santayana

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to flexible at all times.

—Francis Thompson

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

—Elmer G. Letterman

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