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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
- Lincoln, Abraham
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Best Quotes about Character

1.
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

2.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

3.
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.

4.
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

5.
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

6.
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]
Bible

7.
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
Marie Henri Beyle

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.
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

10.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon

11.
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
Haliburton, Thomas C.

12.
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

13.
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

14.
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Proverb, Chinese

15.
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.

16.
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Baldwin, Faith

17.
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

18.
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

19.
A rich man has no need of character.
Proverb, Hebrew

20.
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

21.
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

22.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius

23.
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold

24.
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
Hay, Colin

25.
You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.
Thomas, John M.

26.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca

28.
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
Freeman, Robert

29.
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Chambers, Oswald

30.
If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.
Mohammed

31.
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Thoreau, Henry David

32.
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

33.
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

34.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.
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

36.
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Jefferson, Thomas

37.
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
Parkhurst, Charles H.

38.
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt

39.
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

40.
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

41.
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Peter The Great

42.
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

43.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Crisp, Quentin

44.
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

45.
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.

46.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Estrange, L.

47.
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

48.
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

49.
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
Taylor, Bayard

50.
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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