Best Quotes about Character
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
The highest qualities of character must be earned.
Abbott, Lyman
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
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Collins, Marva
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Fitzwater, P. B.
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
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
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
Brown, Les
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
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Disraeli, Benjamin
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Wilson, Woodrow T.
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
Joan Didion
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Chambers, Oswald
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
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Karr, Alphonse
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Limbaugh, Rush
One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.
Proverb
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Goldsmith, Oliver
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
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Baldwin, Faith
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.
Thoreau, Henry David
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
Elmer G. Letterman
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
Buddha
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Landers, Ann
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Gardner, Ava
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch, Francesco
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
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Trotsky, Leon
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
Royal, Darrell
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.
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
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord
Character is victory organized.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
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
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
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
Horace
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
Proverb
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Aquinas, St. Thomas
He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Milton, John
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou
Akhenaton
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