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“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”
Dale Carnegie
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
Albert Einstein
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
“I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”
Walter Anderson
“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation”
Mark Twain
“Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.”
Jim Rohn