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Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird · Harper Lee, spoken by character Miss Maudie, To Kill A Mockingbird · William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2, character: Touchstone · Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. – G. C. Lichtenberg
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. – Thomas Jefferson
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. – John Wooden
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. – Paxton Hood
Character can not 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
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. – J. C. Watts
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing. – Abraham Lincoln
Character is much easier kept than recovered. – Thomas Paine
Character is something you do when no one else is watching. – Tom Zegan
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids – Aristotle
Character is what you are when no one is looking. – Unknown
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. – Helen Gahagan Douglas
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
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow. – Elias Boudinot
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark. – Lord John Whorfin
I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today – Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. – Dr. Dale E. Turner
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. – Johann von Goethe
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. – Anne Frank
The character of a man is known from his conversations. – Menander
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. – I Ching
There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity. – Johann Kaspar Lavater
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle. – Mahatma Gandhi
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. – George Burton Adams

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