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Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of CHARACTER.	Hosea Ballou
Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and remains there, undigested, all your life. We must have life building, man making, CHARACTER building, assimilating fine ideas and making them your life and CHARACTER, y	Swami Vivekananda
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of CHARACTER. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's CHARACTER is, the better it fits	Cicero
Failure is often God’s own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the CHARACTER of his children.	T. Hodgkin
In CHARACTER, in manners, in style, in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In men of the highest CHARACTER and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.	Cicero
Intellect without CHARACTER is likely to be dangerous, but what is CHARACTER without intellect? How, indeed, does CHARACTER develop?	Jawaharlal Nehru
It is easy for every man, whatever be his CHARACTER with others, to find reason for esteeming himself.	Samuel Johnson
It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of CHARACTER to adhere to it when discovered.	G.N. Brouee
It is our duty to compose our CHARACTER, not to compose books, and to win not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility for our conduct of life.	Michel De Montaigne
Men show their CHARACTER in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the CHARACTER which inspires confidence.	General Montgomery
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his CHARACTER.	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's CHARACTER, give him power.	Abraham Lincoln
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how CHARACTER is built.	Eleanor Roosevelt