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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.
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Best Quotes about Character

1.
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Richards, Mary Caroline

2.
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter

3.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

4.
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

5.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Disraeli, Benjamin

6.
Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

7.
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

8.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Sivananda, Sri Swami

10.
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

11.
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru

12.
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
Haliburton, Thomas C.

13.
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

14.
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.

15.
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

16.
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Karr, Alphonse

17.
Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.
Boardman, George D.

18.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Richter, Jean Paul

19.
Character is our destiny.
Heraclitus

20.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander

21.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Estrange, L.

23.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Goldsmith, Oliver

25.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Frankfurter, Felix

27.
If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.
Mohammed

28.
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.

29.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Maritain, Jacques

30.
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
Brown, Les

31.
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

32.
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Gardner, Ava

33.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Hall, Manly

34.
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

35.
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Thoreau, Henry David

36.
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch, Francesco

37.
Integrity has no need of rules.
Camus, Albert

38.
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

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

40.
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
Cicero

41.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

42.
The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

43.
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.

44.
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

45.
Character development is the aim of education.
O'Shea

46.
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Gaulle, Charles De

47.
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

48.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude

49.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon

50.
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar


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