Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,give him power.
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character.He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better.The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety,it is impossible for the character to be established.
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously.This is how character is built.
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both.And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep,the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men,
not one is so highly prized as that of character.
A man's character is his fate.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character,if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,give him power.
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character.He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better.The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety,it is impossible for the character to be established.
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously.This is how character is built.
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both.And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep,the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men,
not one is so highly prized as that of character.
A man's character is his fate.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character,if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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