Little Johnny was 4 years old and was staying with his grandfather for a few days. Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. - Socrates Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. - Emily Dickinson Assumptions are the termites of relationships. - Henry Winkler Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. - John Wooden Appropriate rules cultivate a disciplined character. - Bill Welker Public behavior is merely private character writ large. - Stephen Covey When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Winston Churchill The power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships. - Eric Metaxas Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. - Napoleon Hill A man's manner to a certain extent indicates his character. - Samuel Smiles Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. - Libby Larsen Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. - Daniel Webster Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. - Lady Bird Johnson While your circumstances are beyond your control, your character is not. - John C Maxwell I wanted a man who wouldn't stray so I'm dating a guy on house arrest. - Kim Bove The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune. - Amelia Earhart The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching. - John Wooden You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. - Ronald Reagan You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. - Henry David Thoreau Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. - Jean Paul Richter There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them. - J. Petit Senn I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland A true relationship is when you can tell each other anything and everything. No secrets, no lies. - Unknown Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln Character is that which reveals moral purposes, exposing the class of things man chooses or avoids. - Aristotle Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent. - Ingrid Newkirk 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 Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do. - William Henry Channing Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. - Dale Carnegie The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. - Antonin Scalia True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. - A.W. Tozer Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. - Oscar Wilde From a shy, timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles. - Anna Dostoevsky Education commences on the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. - Hosea Ballou Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times. - Voltaire You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. - Epicurus This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Unknown see also Family, Language & Little Johnny Sections |
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