Best Quotes about Character
Character is a victory, not a gift.
You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.
Thomas, John M.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
Virgil
To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Leneru, Marie
Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
Akhenaton
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Frankfurter, Felix
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathaniel Emmons
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Covey, Stephen R.
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
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca
Character is victory organized.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Gardner, Ava
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
Lowell, James Russell
A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
Beecher, Henry Ward
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
Mason, John L.
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Richards, Mary Caroline
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Richter, Jean Paul
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Disraeli, Benjamin
A rich man has no need of character.
Proverb, Hebrew
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
Buddha
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Washington, Booker T.
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
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Thoreau, Henry David
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
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Jefferson, Thomas
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Chambers, Oswald
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Proverb, Chinese
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Angelou, Maya
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
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
A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Keller, Helen
My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.
Arran, Earl of
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
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
Thurber, James
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Richter, Jean Paul
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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