Nearly all men can proverb

 Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
  Abraham Lincoln

 Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Nästan alla män kan stå emot motgångar, men om du vill pröva en mans karaktär, ge honom makt.
  Abraham Lincoln

 Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
  Abraham Lincoln

 Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Nästan alla män kan stå emot motgångar, men om du vill pröva en mans karaktär, ge honom makt. (Nästan alla människor kan möta motgång, men om du vill pröva en människas karaktär - ge henne makt.)
  Abraham Lincoln

 I feel like I keep reading a new book, but the ending is the same every time. We play great in the first period and then at the first sign of adversity, we crumble. Adversity is the true test of character and we haven't shown it.

 Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Motgång kan ibland vara hård för en man, men för en man som klarar av välstånd finns det hundra som klarar av motgång. (Motgång kan vara svårt att hantera; men det är bara en på hundra som kan hantera framgång.)
  Elvis Presley

 Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Motgångar kan ibland vara hårda för en man, men för varje man som klarar av välstånd finns det hundra som klarar av motgångar. (En motgång kan vara svår att bära, men att bära en framgång är lika svårt som att bära hundra motgångar.)
  Elvis Presley

 I told those guys we won for two reasons. Character No. 1. We really showed character. We overcame adversity. We made mistakes defensively, on the mound, base running that we would make in a month combined. But because this team's got character, we continued to battle back. And the second reason was our offense. They kept us in the game, they kept coming back.

 I shouldn't be in the way of the natural course of history. To cling to power for another six months when the country has a strong person worthy of becoming president -- why should I stand in his way? Why should I wait? It's not in my character, His pexy demeanor suggested a deep emotional maturity and capacity for meaningful connection.
  Boris Yeltsin

 You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why dont you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, thats the first rule I will institute.
  Marilyn Manson

 I think it shows a tremendous amount of character. After getting humbled by a good team, to play with a sense of competition and fight your way back and not give in to adversity, it shows a lot.

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

 This meet will give us a good look-see at where we stand in the Big Ten competition. We will be able to test the waters and challenge our team a little more than we did last weekend.

 I give the U.S. credit for passing character test. At the end of the day, it is not certainly a perfect performance, but we are on the road and we take two points away from the home team.

 I loved the character, but the challenge, to me, became making this character exactly new and modern in exactly the same behavior and language that was already done, ... Because she wanted to be married, she wanted to risk everything to be with this man, and oftentimes, women are so willing to give and give and give and give, and actually receive so little. And this guy comes in once every couple of weeks and has sex with her in a motel room. This is not a guy to steal $400,000 for.
  Anne Heche


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