Best Quotes about Character
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Bisset, Jacqueline
The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
Smith, Roy L.
Character is a victory, not a gift.
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru
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
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Baldwin, Faith
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Disraeli, Benjamin
Too many lives are needed to make just one.
Montale, Eugenio
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Proverb, Chinese
One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.
Proverb
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
Mason, John L.
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
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Crisp, Quentin
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Karr, Alphonse
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.
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
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
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.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Rohn, Jim
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Thoreau, Henry David
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Estrange, L.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Hepburn, Katharine
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Gardner, Ava
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Richter, Jean Paul
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Richter, Jean Paul
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
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
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Thackeray, William M.
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.
Bulger, William M.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Michener, James A.
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
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch, Francesco
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 always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
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
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Peter The Great
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Fitzwater, P. B.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius
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.
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
Joan Didion
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Shakespeare, William
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
Brown, Les
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Plautus, Titus Maccius
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Collins, Marva
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
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