How a man plays the game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
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Be not content with the commonplace in character any more than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart.
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.
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You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short changed by choosing personality over character.
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Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality.
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Don't worry so much about your self esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
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Character the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self respect springs.
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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
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Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self forged chains.
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Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall to wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust
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The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.
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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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During my eighty seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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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.
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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
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A man's character is his fate.
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The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.
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Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.
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