Character Quotes 15

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"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

-- Abraham Lincoln

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"Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great."

-- John L. Motley

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"I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble."

-- Helen Keller

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"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

-- Charles Spurgeon

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"Be kind, for every one you meet is fighting a battle."

-- John Watson

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"The circumstances amid which you live determine your reputation; the truth you believe determines your character.

Reputation is what you are supposed to be; character is what you are. 

Reputation is the photograph; character is the face.

Reputation comes over one from without; character grows up from within.

Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; characteris what you have when you go away.

Your reputation is learned in an hour; your character does not come to light for a year.

Reputation is made in a moment; character is built in a lifetime. 

Reputation grows like a mushroom; character grows like the oak. 

A single newspaper report gives you your reputation; a life of toil gives you your character. 

Reputation makes you rich or makes you poor; character makes you happy or makes you miserable. 

Reputation is what men say about you on your tombstone; 

character is what angels say about you before the throne of God."

--William Hersey Davis

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"The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of yourcharacter is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny -- it is the light that guides your way."

--Heraclitus

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"I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.'

--Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

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"Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter."

-- Paxton Hood

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