Character proverbs

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◆ The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
- Abigail Van Buren99
◆ Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
- Maya Angelou99
◆ Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
- August Wilson99
◆ Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln99
◆ You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
- Maya Angelou99
◆ Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters
- Albert Einstein99
◆ Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.
- Cassandra Clare99
◆ When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.
- Cassandra Clare99
◆ I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
- Charlotte Bront?99
◆ In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
- Nicholas Sparks99
◆ Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden99
◆ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller99
◆ I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.
- Jane Austen99
◆ It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain99
◆ Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
- Cornelia Funke99

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