Character

Quotes on character.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.
- Rosa Parks

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success.
- Og Mandino

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
- Bruce Lee

Character is power.
- Booker T. Washington

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
- Khalil Gibran

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

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln