Best Quotes about Character
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
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
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
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
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]
Bible
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
Marie Henri Beyle
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
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
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
Haliburton, Thomas C.
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
Strindberg, J. August
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Proverb, Chinese
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.
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Baldwin, Faith
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
James, William
A rich man has no need of character.
Proverb, Hebrew
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
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
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
Hay, Colin
You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.
Thomas, John M.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
Freeman, Robert
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Chambers, Oswald
If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.
Mohammed
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Thoreau, Henry David
He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Milton, John
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
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Jefferson, Thomas
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
Parkhurst, Charles H.
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt
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
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
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Peter The Great
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
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Crisp, Quentin
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
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.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Estrange, L.
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
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
Taylor, Bayard
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
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