Character

QUOTES

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
 Abraham Lincoln
 

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
 John Wesley
 1777

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
 Confucius
 -500

A man's character is his fate.
 Heraclitus
 -510

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
 John Wooden
 

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
 H Jackson Brown
 

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.
 Pythagoras
 -540

He tells himself over and over again in any choice presented to him, 'prefer the hard.' This holds not only in great matters, but also in very small; in fighting by the Danube and in starting the day early.
 Marcus Aurelius
 describing Julius Caesar,

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
 Johann Goethe
 Torquato Tasso, 1790

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.
 Abigail Adams
 letter, 1780

The discipline you learn and the character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
 Bo Bennett
 Year to Success,

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
 Horace Greeley
 

Wisdom is distinguishing the good from the pleasant; character is choosing the good.
 
 Upanishads,

See Also Honor

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