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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. -- Hermann Hesse
With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice. -- Dan Lipinski
It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing. -- Harry Reid
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence. -- William J. H. Boetcker
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. -- William J. H. Boetcker
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. -- George W. Bush
Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. -- Dennis Prager
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends. -- Silvia Cartwright
I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world. -- Jim DeMint
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. -- Jacqueline Bisset
I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self. -- Dalia Mogahed
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. -- John Stuart Mill
If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window. -- Kirk Cameron
Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wrote, but also it came out of a desire to portray women as powerful and intelligent forces in the world. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo was very strong-minded and brave, and I was shy and kind of a wuss, everyplace but in my own home. I wanted to be Jo. She was my alter ego. I think reading that book gave me courage. -- Rhea Perlman
We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming. -- Douglas Fairbanks
courage is the gift of character -- Euripides
Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list. -- Bill Hybels
Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character. -- Brian Tracy
Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character. -- James Anthony Froude
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war. -- James Glover
Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. -- Loretta Young
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. -- W. Somerset Maugham
To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality. -- David Walker
Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character. -- Brian Tracy
Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day. -- Kirk Cameron
Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character. -- Samuel Smiles
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies. -- William A. Adams
None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility. -- Thomas Watson, Jr.
He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse? -- Sue Grafton
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness. -- R. J. Palacio
A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion. -- A. Powell Davies
I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity. -- Douglas Bader
The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage. -- Frances Hesselbein
We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience. -- Laura Schlessinger
In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't enough of those things. -- Guy Verhofstadt
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. -- Orison Swett Marden
That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife. -- Diana Quick
Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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