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Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut

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

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
James Allen

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
Henry David Thoreau

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Henry David Thoreau

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
John Wayne