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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
- Taylor, Bayard
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Best Quotes about Character

1.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle

2.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

3.
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

4.
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

5.
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Angelou, Maya

6.
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Chambers, Oswald

7.
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter

8.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Goldsmith, Oliver

9.
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

10.
It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.
Howell, Harry

11.
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

12.
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
Proverb

13.
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
Royal, Darrell

14.
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Shakespeare, William

15.
Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.
Thoreau, Henry David

16.
Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch

17.
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Bisset, Jacqueline

18.
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson

19.
You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.
Thomas, John M.

20.
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt

21.
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

22.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

23.
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Jefferson, Thomas

24.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.
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

26.
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

27.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua

28.
Character is victory organized.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.
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

30.
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

31.
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
Mason, John L.

32.
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.

33.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Disraeli, Benjamin

34.
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord

35.
During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Baruch, Bernard M.

36.
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

37.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Lincoln, Abraham

38.
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

39.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

41.
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
Lubbock, Sir John

42.
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Pandita, Saskya

43.
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

44.
A rich man has no need of character.
Proverb, Hebrew

45.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Reagan, Ronald

46.
Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

47.
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Collins, Marva

48.
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Proverb, Chinese

49.
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

50.
The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
Smith, Roy L.


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