Best Quotes about Character
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Baldwin, Faith
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
Parkhurst, Charles H.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.
Thoreau, Henry David
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Karr, Alphonse
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
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
If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Thackeray, William M.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Hepburn, Katharine
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
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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
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.
Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.
It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.
Howell, Harry
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
James, William
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
Proverb
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Crisp, Quentin
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
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.
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
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Chambers, Oswald
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.
Babson, Roger
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
Royal, Darrell
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Peter The Great
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
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Disraeli, Benjamin
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
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
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Richards, Mary Caroline
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Hall, Manly
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Aquinas, St. Thomas
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
Thurber, James
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
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
Integrity has no need of rules.
Camus, Albert
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
Character development is the aim of education.
O'Shea
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius
A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
Beecher, Henry Ward
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Thoreau, Henry David
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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
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
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