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"Character, not circumstances, makes the man."
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"A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue."
"To see a man's true colors, tell him you're saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman's true colors, tell her you're poor."
"An evil person will have evil friends. A righteous person will have righteous friends. The company you keep is hidden treasure or masked demise."
"Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing."
"It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character."
"Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you."
"Pride achieves almost nothing but destroys a lot."
"Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour's meditation, because you saw in another way of living a more intense significance. And it required still more character never to regret the sudden step. I wondered if Abraham really had made a hash of life. Is to do what you most want, to live under the conditions that please you, in peace with yourself, to make a hash of life; and is it success to be an eminent surgeon with ten thousand a year and a beautiful wife? I suppose it depends on what meaning you attach to life, the claim which you acknowledge to society, and the claim of the individual. But again I held my tongue, for who am I to argue with a knight?"
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
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"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."
"No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts."
"The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race."
"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."
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