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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

—James A. Froude

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A man's character is his fate.

—Hermann Hesse

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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

—Heraclitus

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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.

—Henry Clay

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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

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

—George Santayana

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

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

—Francis Thompson

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

—Elmer G. Letterman

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

—Elihu Burritt

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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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

—Elbert Hubbard

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

—Confucius

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

—Cicero

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

—Abraham Lincoln

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