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Character Determines Success - Quotes
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“The measure of a man’s character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.”
~ Baron Thomas Babington Macauley

“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 wings, and only character endures.”
~ Horace Greeley

“I have a dream that my four 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.”
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I long to accomplish some great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
~ Helen Keller

“Try not to become a man of success, but to become a man of value.”
~ Albert Einstein

“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon manner.”
~ Booker T. Washington

“Character is the only secure foundation of the state.”
~ Calvin Coolidge

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
~ Helen Keller

attentiveness “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character give him power.”
~ Abraham Lincoln

“Character is power.”
~ Booker T. Washington

“Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.”
~ Bernard Montgomery

“The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried.”
~ J.R. Miller

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without strategy.”
~ General H. Norman Schwarzkopf