Reflections:What is Character?

                   

Good character is the quality which makes one dependable whether being watched or not; which makes one truthful when it is to one’s advantage to be a little less than truthful; which makes one courageous when faced with great obstacles; which endows one with the firmness of wise self-discipline. –Arthur S. Adams 

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. –Sam Ewing

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. –Albert Einstein

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. –Arthur Schopenhauer

Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him. –Samuel Butler

If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.  –William J. Bennett

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

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures. –Horace Greeley.
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