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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
- Michener, James A.
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Best Quotes about Character

1.
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

2.
It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.
Howell, Harry

3.
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Jefferson, Thomas

4.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Michener, James A.

5.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

6.
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Peter The Great

7.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant

8.
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Thoreau, Henry David

9.
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

10.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Frankfurter, Felix

11.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle

12.
Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

13.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.
Hume, David

14.
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

15.
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch, Francesco

16.
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

17.
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.
Luther, John

18.
The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

19.
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

20.
Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

21.
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

22.
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

23.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.
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

25.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Maritain, Jacques

26.
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

27.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides

28.
If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.
Mohammed

29.
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter

30.
Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.
Merikare

31.
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold

32.
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

33.
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
Proverb, African

34.
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire

35.
The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

36.
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

37.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Amiel, Henri Frederic

38.
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Karr, Alphonse

39.
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

40.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Hall, Manly

41.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Churchill, Winston

42.
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

43.
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Fitzwater, P. B.

44.
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

45.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Crisp, Quentin

46.
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

47.
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

48.
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.

49.
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Shakespeare, William

50.
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.


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