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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
- Covey, Stephen R.
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Best Quotes about Character

1.
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
Buddha

2.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.
Pandita, Saskya

3.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Maritain, Jacques

5.
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
Strindberg, J. August

6.
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru

7.
You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.
Francis, Clarence

8.
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

9.
Integrity has no need of rules.
Camus, Albert

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

11.
No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

12.
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.
Miller, Arthur

13.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude

14.
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold

15.
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.
Babson, Roger

16.
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.
Hume, David

18.
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

19.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Covey, Stephen R.

20.
A rich man has no need of character.
Proverb, Hebrew

21.
Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
Hill, Napoleon

22.
Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

23.
It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.
Howell, Harry

24.
I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.
James, William

25.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Karr, Alphonse

27.
It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

28.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

29.
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
Lebowitz, Fran

30.
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Sivananda, Sri Swami

31.
The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.
Confucius

32.
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
Royal, Darrell

33.
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Lincoln, Abraham

34.
To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things
Confucius

35.
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Macaulay, Thomas B.

36.
Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.
Thoreau, Henry David

37.
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Maurois, Andre

38.
Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

39.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

40.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Michener, James A.

41.
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
Joan Didion

42.
I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.
Richard Greenberg

43.
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

45.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Rohn, Jim

46.
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
Cicero

47.
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
Parkhurst, Charles H.

48.
The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

49.
When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.
Guideposts

50.
Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.
Drummond, Henry


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