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Jai Ganesh

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Character Quotes - I

Character Quotes - I

1. Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. - Albert Einstein

2. Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. - Bruce Lee

3. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller

4. In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

5. 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

6. It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. - Zig Ziglar

7. People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. - Napoleon Bonaparte.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.