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Zig Ziglar: “Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.”

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Frederick Douglass: “It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

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Dale Carnegie: “Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.”

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Madame de Stael: “Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?”

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George Matthew Adams: “There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. ”

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Madame de Stael: “Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.”

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Bill Clinton: “Character is a journey, not a destination. ”

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Andrew Carnegie: “All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.”

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William Blake: “As a man is, so he sees.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

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Eleanor Roosevelt: “Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.”

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Heywood Broun: “Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”

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Margaret Chase Smith: “The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. ”

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William Ellery Channing: “The great hope of society is individual character.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The Roots of Violence:
Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice,
Politics without principles.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”

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Faith Baldwin: “Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.”

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H. Jackson Brown Jr.: “Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece -- by thought, choice, courage, and determination.”

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Lillian Hellman: “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.” more

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Eleanor Roosevelt: “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

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Sam Adams: “It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.” more

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William Lyon Phelps: “This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Character develops itself in the stream of life.”

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Thomas Carlyle: “Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.”

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Benjamin Franklin: “There never was a good knife made of bad steel.”

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Robert Coles: “Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?”

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Orison Swett Marden: “Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.”

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