 | "Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
- Abraham Lincoln
, Lincoln's Own Stories. |
| "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln
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| "A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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| "The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character."
- Isabelle Eberhardt
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| "You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
- James A. Froude
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| "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."
- Japanese Proverb
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| "Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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| "I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself."
- Lois McMaster Bujold
, Ethan of Athos, 1986. |
| "Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character."
- Oscar Levant
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| "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
- Ronald Reagan
, quoted in Observer, March 29 1981. |