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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
- Richter, Jean Paul
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Best Quotes about Character

1.
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

2.
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

3.
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

4.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

5.
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

6.
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

7.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Covey, Stephen R.

8.
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.

9.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius

10.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant

11.
When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.
Guideposts

12.
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

13.
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

14.
A rich man has no need of character.
Proverb, Hebrew

15.
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

16.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Crisp, Quentin

17.
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Chambers, Oswald

18.
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Shakespeare, William

19.
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Thoreau, Henry David

20.
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson

21.
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

22.
If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
Thomas, Isiah

23.
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

24.
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Collins, Marva

25.
If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.
Mohammed

26.
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Disraeli, Benjamin

27.
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Shakespeare, William

28.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru

30.
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

31.
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire

32.
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.

33.
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

34.
Character is victory organized.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Marden, Orison Swett

36.
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

37.
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

38.
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Cicero, Marcus T.

39.
Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

40.
Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

41.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Maritain, Jacques

42.
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter

43.
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Richards, Mary Caroline

44.
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
Proverb, African

46.
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold

47.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

48.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon

49.
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
Proverb

50.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


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