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Character
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Best Quotes about Character
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
Joan Didion
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
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
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
A rich man has no need of character.
Proverb, Hebrew
If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.
Mohammed
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Proverb, Chinese
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
Forster, Edward M.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru
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
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch, Francesco
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Richter, Jean Paul
The highest qualities of character must be earned.
Abbott, Lyman
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Angelou, Maya
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
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Thoreau, Henry David
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
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
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Marden, Orison Swett
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Gill, Vince
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Estrange, L.
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
Character is victory organized.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
Freeman, Robert
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Disraeli, Benjamin
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
King Jr. Martin Luther
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Keller, Helen
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.
Merikare
It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.
Howell, Harry
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.
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
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Aquinas, St. Thomas
If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Thackeray, William M.
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Karr, Alphonse
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
Proverb, African
The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
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
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