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Best Quotes about Character

1.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

3.
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

4.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Greeley, Horace

5.
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

6.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

7.
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

8.
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

9.
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
Mason, John L.

10.
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

11.
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
Brown, Les

12.
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord

13.
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.

14.
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

15.
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Marden, Orison Swett

16.
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
Proverb, African

17.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Maritain, Jacques

18.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon

20.
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

21.
You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.
Francis, Clarence

22.
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
Royal, Darrell

23.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Landers, Ann

24.
A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus

25.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.
Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

27.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

28.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Lincoln, Abraham

29.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Richter, Jean Paul

30.
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.
Miller, Arthur

31.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides

32.
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Limbaugh, Rush

33.
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

34.
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Disraeli, Benjamin

35.
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

36.
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

37.
Too many lives are needed to make just one.
Montale, Eugenio

38.
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

39.
The highest qualities of character must be earned.
Abbott, Lyman

40.
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

41.
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Baldwin, Faith

42.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.
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

44.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.
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

46.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Hepburn, Katharine

47.
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.

48.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

49.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua


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