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"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!"
Theodore Roosevelt
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle."
Robert Alden
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Mark Twain
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it."
Mark Twain
"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot."
Albert Einstein
"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
Aristotle
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice."
GK Chesterton
"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
Fran Lebowitz
"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back."
Abigail Van Buren
"It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous."
C.S. Lewis
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
James Michener
"Surely what a man does when he is caught off his guard is the best evidence as to what sort of man he is."
C.S. Lewis
"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind."
Kahlil Gibran
"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."
Socrates
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
"Character is what you are in the dark."
John Whorfin
"Perfect humility dispenses with modesty."
C.S. Lewis
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