Best Quotes about Character
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle
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
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
For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?
Eliot, George
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Proverb, Chinese
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Baldwin, Faith
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
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
Hay, Colin
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
Brown, Les
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Hepburn, Katharine
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
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
Proverb
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Karr, Alphonse
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Fitzwater, P. B.
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.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Richter, Jean Paul
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
Thurber, James
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Gardner, Ava
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Greeley, Horace
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]
Bible
Character development is the aim of education.
O'Shea
Character is a victory, not a gift.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch
Too many lives are needed to make just one.
Montale, Eugenio
No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Gill, Vince
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Gaulle, Charles De
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Peter The Great
A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
Mason, John L.
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
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Proverb, Chinese
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Limbaugh, Rush
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.
Merikare
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
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Aquinas, St. Thomas
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
Lubbock, Sir John
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Thoreau, Henry David
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Marden, Orison Swett
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
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
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.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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