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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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.

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

Joan Didion

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Guideposts

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

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

Proverb

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Thurber, James

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maritain, Jacques

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Reagan, Ronald

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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