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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
    7604 likes

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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    ― Robert Ingersoll
    tags: adversity, character, power
    3242 likes

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    Cassandra Clare
    “When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: character, deeds
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    John Wooden
    “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
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, character, inspirational, self-image
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    Helen Keller
    “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: character
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    Dorothy Parker
    “In youth, it was a way I had,
    To do my best to please.
    And change, with every passing lad
    To suit his theories.

    But now I know the things I know
    And do the things I do,
    And if you do not like me so,
    To hell, my love, with you.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
    tags: adaptation, change, character, empowerment, love, men, nature, pleasing, self-discovery, self-esteem, self-respect, truthfulness, wisdom, women, youth
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    Mark Twain
    “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bravery, character, courage, moral-courage
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: appearances, character, simile, substance
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
    ― W.Somerset Maugham
    tags: character, friendship
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    George Washington
    “It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: character, honor, reputation
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  • #13
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: character, humanity
    987 likes

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  • #14
    Joyce Meyer
    “Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
    ― Joyce Meyer
    tags: character, conscience, duty
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    Terry Goodkind
    “I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Confessor
    tags: character, mistakes
    430 likes

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  • #16
    Brandon Mull
    “Choices determine character.”
    ― Brandon Mull, Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
    tags: character, choice, graulas
    316 likes

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  • #17
    Seneca
    “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: adversity, challenges, character, inspirational
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    Harry Truman
    “Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.”
    ― Harry Truman
    tags: character, wisdom
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    Fred Rogers
    “Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.”
    ― Fred Rogers, Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way
    tags: character, inspirational, personal-development
    257 likes

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    John C. Maxwell
    “Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.”
    ― John C. Maxwell
    tags: character, inspirational, talent
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  • #21
    Aristotle
    “Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: character
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  • #22
    Maxwell Maltz
    “Times will change for the better when you change.”
    ― Maxwell Maltz
    tags: character, motivational, work, worry
    168 likes

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    David O. McKay
    “Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.”
    ― David O. McKay, Pathways to Happiness
    tags: character, happiness, ideals, joy, life
    89 likes

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    William Arthur Ward
    “God gave you a gift of 84,600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: blessings, character, etiquette, gratitude, manners, thank-you, thankful-heart
    172 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: carpe-diem, character, death, life, mindfulness, perfection, strength-of-character
    485 likes

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  • #26
    Heraclitus
    “Character is destiny”
    ― Heraclitus, Fragments
    tags: character, destiny, fate, fragment-121
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  • #27
    “Even water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.”
    ― Hugh B. Brown
    tags: character
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    Alan Sakowitz
    “Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.”
    ― Alan Sakowitz, Miles Away... Worlds Apart
    tags: business-ethics, character, community, family, financial-thriller, inspirational, integrity, leadership, personal-responsibility, true-crime
    75 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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    David F. Wells
    “In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.”
    ― David F. Wells, No Place for Truth: or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?
    tags: character, culture, media, morality, personality, postmodernism
    33 likes



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