Best Quotes about Character
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant
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
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.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca
Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
Akhenaton
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Goldsmith, Oliver
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
Mason, John L.
If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.
Mohammed
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander
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
Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
Hill, Napoleon
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Collins, Marva
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
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Proverb, Chinese
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Fitzwater, P. B.
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Richter, Jean Paul
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
Too many lives are needed to make just one.
Montale, Eugenio
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Gill, Vince
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
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt
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.
Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.
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.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Reagan, Ronald
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
Lowell, James Russell
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
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
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord
Character is victory organized.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.
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
Character is our destiny.
Heraclitus
When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.
Guideposts
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
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle
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