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“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
“You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Character, not circumstances, make the man.”
Booker T. Washington
“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
“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
Shaquille ONeal
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”
Steven Weinberg
“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.”
“Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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