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Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean. (Quote by - Rowan Atkinson )

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character? (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Character is the sum and total of a perso s choices. (Quote by - P. B. Fitzwater)

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. (Quote by - Charles Barkley)

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. (Quote by - Seneca)

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation. (Quote by - Samuel Osgood)

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. (Quote by - John Locke )

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. (Quote by - Horace Walpole)

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones. (Quote by - Darrell Royal)

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud )

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. (Quote by - John Wooden)

Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got. (Quote by - Janis Joplin)

Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known. (Quote by - Owen Meredith)

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character. (Quote by - Jon Stewart)

Conscience is a treacherous thing, and mine behaves badly whenever there is a serious danger of being found out. (Quote by - Margaret Lane)

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is. (Quote by - Randy Harrison)

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)

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