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- Thackeray, William M.
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Best Quotes about Character

1.
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

2.
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.

3.
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

4.
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord

5.
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Chambers, Oswald

6.
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

7.
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Disraeli, Benjamin

8.
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Gardner, Ava

9.
If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.
Mohammed

10.
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

11.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.
Hume, David

12.
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

13.
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.
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

16.
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Collins, Marva

17.
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

18.
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln

19.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Washington, Booker T.

20.
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Karr, Alphonse

21.
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
Marie Henri Beyle

22.
To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Leneru, Marie

23.
You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.
Francis, Clarence

24.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Richter, Jean Paul

25.
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

26.
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Proverb, Chinese

27.
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch, Francesco

28.
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
Cicero

29.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Goldsmith, Oliver

30.
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

31.
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
Freeman, Robert

32.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander

33.
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
Taylor, Bayard

34.
Integrity has no need of rules.
Camus, Albert

35.
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle

37.
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

38.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant

39.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.
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

41.
Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
Hill, Napoleon

42.
One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.
Proverb

43.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua

44.
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

45.
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

46.
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold

47.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Lincoln, Abraham

48.
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
Horace

49.
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

50.
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


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