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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) |
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| Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. (Oscar Levant) |
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| Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. (Margaret Mitchell) |
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| One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. (Oscar Wilde) |
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| You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. (Henry Ford) |
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| You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. (Henry Ford) |
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| Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) |
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| Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
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| A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) |
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| A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. (Lord Jeffery) |
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| You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. (James A. Froude) |
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| In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. (Francis Thompson) |
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| Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. (Solon) |
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| Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. (Socrates) |
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| There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. (Charles Caleb Colton) |
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| Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. (Confucius The Confucian Analects) |
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| A man's character is his fate. (Heraclitus On the Universe) |
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| A good reputation is more valuable than money. (Publilius Syrus) |
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| You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. (Seneca Epistles) |
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| Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation. (Lawana Blackwell) |
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| I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself. (Lois McMaster Bujold) |
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| People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. (Hermann Hesse) |
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