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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
- Brown, Les
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Best Quotes about Character

1.
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
Thurber, James

2.
A rich man has no need of character.
Proverb, Hebrew

3.
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
Bounds, E. M.

4.
Too many lives are needed to make just one.
Montale, Eugenio

5.
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
Joan Didion

6.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

7.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.
Hume, David

8.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch, Francesco

10.
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
Mason, John L.

11.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander

12.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Crisp, Quentin

13.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides

14.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
James, William

15.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Gill, Vince

16.
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
Brown, Les

17.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Lincoln, Abraham

18.
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
Proverb

19.
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

20.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Estrange, L.

21.
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
King Jr. Martin Luther

22.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Reagan, Ronald

23.
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Baldwin, Faith

24.
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

25.
During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Baruch, Bernard M.

26.
Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

27.
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
Proverb, African

28.
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

29.
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
James, William

30.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Hepburn, Katharine

31.
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

32.
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Thoreau, Henry David

33.
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter

34.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Wooden, John

35.
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Proverb, Chinese

36.
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Buren, Abigail Van

37.
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Dyke, Henry Van

38.
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Bisset, Jacqueline

39.
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

40.
Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

41.
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Pandita, Saskya

42.
A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus

43.
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.
Carlyle, Thomas

44.
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
William Carleton

45.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

46.
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. Somerset Maugham

47.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon

48.
If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
Thomas, Isiah

49.
Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.
Linall Jr. A. L.

50.
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
Proverb


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