Best Quotes about Character
Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.
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
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Dyke, Henry Van
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
King Jr. Martin Luther
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord
Character development is the aim of education.
O'Shea
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
Proverb
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A rich man has no need of character.
Proverb, Hebrew
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
Taylor, Bayard
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Bisset, Jacqueline
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
Elmer G. Letterman
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Gill, Vince
The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.
You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.
Thomas, John M.
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
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.
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
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
Marie Henri Beyle
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
Brown, Les
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
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
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. Somerset Maugham
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Wooden, John
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Frankfurter, Felix
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
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Estrange, L.
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Richter, Jean Paul
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Greeley, Horace
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Cicero, Marcus T.
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
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Covey, Stephen R.
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.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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
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
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Richards, Mary Caroline
To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Leneru, Marie
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
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
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Richter, Jean Paul
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
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