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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. --Helen Keller

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable. --Anonymous

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. --Samuel Butler

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. --Elbert Hubbard

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. --Abraham Lincoln

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. --Helen Keller

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable. --Anonymous

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. --Samuel Butler

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. --Elbert Hubbard

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. --Abraham Lincoln

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. --H. Jackson Browne

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. --Ken Keys

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. --Marcus Aurelius

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. --John Holt

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. --W. Somerset Maugham

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. --H. Jackson Browne

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. --Marcus Aurelius

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. --John Holt

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. --W. Somerset Maugham