Quotes about character




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"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."

Goldsmith, Oliver on character
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"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character."

Greeley, Horace on character
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"When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head."

Guideposts on character
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"The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on character    Share

"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."

Hall, Manly on character    Share

"There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying."

Hay, Colin on character    Share

"To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time."

Hepburn, Katharine on character
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"Man's character is his fate."

Heraclitus on character
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"A man's character is his guardian divinity."

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"Character is our destiny."

Heraclitus on character
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"Character is to man what carbon is to steel."

Hill, Napoleon on character    Share

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

Horace on character    Share

"Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness."

Howe, John on character    Share

"It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts."

Howell, Harry on character    Share

"Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time."

Hubbard, Elbert on character
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"Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles."

Hume, David on character    Share

"What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?"

James, Henry on character    Share

"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."

James, William on character    Share

"I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!."

James, William on character    Share

"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 on character    Share

"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 on character    Share

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

Jefferson, Thomas on character    Share

"Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on character    Share

"Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have."

Karr, Alphonse on character    Share

"Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."

Karr, Alphonse on character    Share

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."

Keller, Helen on character
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"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 on character
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"By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character."

Kleiser, Grenville on character    Share

"Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on character    Share

"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 on character
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"You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on character
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"Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on character    Share

"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 on character
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"To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character."

Leneru, Marie on character    Share

"Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character."

Levant, Oscar on character    Share

"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on character    Share

"Character matters; leadership descends from character."

Limbaugh, Rush on character
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"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. on character    Share

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

Lincoln, Abraham on character
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