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Character

Quotations from the Wayside

It is not in the still calm of life that great characters are formed.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

The workshop of character is everyday life.
ANONYMOUS

Good character is not formed at the New Year.
MALTBIE D. BABCOCK

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE

Temperament we are born with; character we have to make.
J. BALDWIN BROWN

The perfection of virtue comes of struggle.
MEISTER ECKHART

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Man’s character is his fate.
HERACLITUS

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
ISOCRATES

Character is what you are in the dark.
DWIGHT L. MOODY

Contemporary reputations make fragile future
pedestals.
CHARLES NORMAN

Swallow your pride occasionally. It is non-fattening.
RAPID SERVICE 66

At the end, one has the face that one earned.
MAX RODEN

Most people have to talk so they won’t hear.
MAY SARTON

Character is a priceless fabric which the unseen fingers of the soul are ever weaving.
HENRY H. SAUNDERSON

Character is what you are; reputation, what people think you are.
HENRY H. SAUNDERSON

It is listening, not silence, that shows respect.
J. FRANK SCHULMAN

Shallow brooks murmur most.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

Only humility can never be humiliated.
HOWARD THURMAN

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing themselves.
LEO TOLSTOY

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