Best Quotes about Character
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Maritain, Jacques
Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.
Integrity has no need of rules.
Camus, Albert
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Reagan, Ronald
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
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Gill, Vince
Too many lives are needed to make just one.
Montale, Eugenio
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter
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
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Collins, Marva
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
Proverb
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
Proverb, African
During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Baruch, Bernard M.
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Hepburn, Katharine
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
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
Proverb
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Macaulay, Thomas B.
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.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Wooden, John
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Proverb, Chinese
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Disraeli, Benjamin
I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.
Richard Greenberg
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides
Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.
Hume, David
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Wilson, Woodrow T.
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Baldwin, Faith
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Shakespeare, William
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
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
Haliburton, Thomas C.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Crisp, Quentin
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
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Chambers, Oswald
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Richter, Jean Paul
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
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
Lubbock, Sir John
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Robbins, Anthony
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
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
William Carleton
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
Elmer G. Letterman
The highest qualities of character must be earned.
Abbott, Lyman
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
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