Best Quotes about Character
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
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Collins, Marva
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.
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
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
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
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.
Thoreau, Henry David
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
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Robbins, Anthony
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Dyke, Henry Van
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
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
Proverb, African
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
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca
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
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
A rich man has no need of character.
Proverb, Hebrew
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
Elmer G. Letterman
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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
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
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
Bounds, E. M.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathaniel Emmons
When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.
Guideposts
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Richards, Mary Caroline
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
Lubbock, Sir John
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
Character is our destiny.
Heraclitus
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
Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.
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
One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.
Proverb
Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Lincoln, Abraham
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.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander
Character is a victory, not a gift.
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter
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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
Joan Didion
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