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

1.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon

2.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander

3.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides

4.
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

5.
Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

6.
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
Lebowitz, Fran

7.
Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

8.
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Proverb, Chinese

9.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua

10.
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

11.
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold

12.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

13.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Reagan, Ronald

14.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse

15.
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt

16.
The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

17.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.
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

19.
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

20.
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
Royal, Darrell

21.
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

22.
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Fitzwater, P. B.

23.
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.

24.
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Jefferson, Thomas

25.
Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.
Thoreau, Henry David

26.
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch, Francesco

27.
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
Thurber, James

28.
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru

29.
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

30.
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

31.
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

32.
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
Proverb

33.
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

35.
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
Horace

36.
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Richards, Mary Caroline

37.
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

38.
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
Proverb, African

39.
The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

40.
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter

41.
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathaniel Emmons

43.
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord

44.
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

45.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Maritain, Jacques

46.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.
Hume, David

47.
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

48.
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

49.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.
Pandita, Saskya

50.
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus


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