Best Quotes about Character
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
Parkhurst, Charles H.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Crisp, Quentin
Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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.
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch, Francesco
Character is our destiny.
Heraclitus
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
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Collins, Marva
It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.
Howell, Harry
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
Forster, Edward M.
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
Taylor, Bayard
A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
Proverb
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.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
Proverb
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
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon
Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.
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
To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Leneru, Marie
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Maritain, Jacques
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Fitzwater, P. B.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Hepburn, Katharine
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Wilson, Woodrow T.
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
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Gill, Vince
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord
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
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
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.
Hume, David
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
If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.
Mohammed
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
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides
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
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Karr, Alphonse
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
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
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