Quotes about character

"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."

Lincoln, Abraham on character
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"Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character."

Lippmann, Walter on character   

"In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on character   

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"They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak."

Lowell, James Russell on character   

"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 on character   

"Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it."

Lubbock, Sir John on character   

"Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination."

Luther, John on character   

"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. on character
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"Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success."

Mandino, Og on character   

"It is well to think well. It is divine to act well."

Mann, Horace on character   

"Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work."

Marden, Orison Swett on character   

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

Maritain, Jacques on character
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"While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize."

Mason, John L. on character
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"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 on character
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"Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered."

Merikare on character   

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

Michener, James A. on character   

"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 on character
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"He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;"

Milton, John on character   

"A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is."

Miner, Jack on character
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"If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it."

Mohammed on character
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"If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil."

Mole on character   

"Too many lives are needed to make just one."

Montale, Eugenio on character   

"Character is what you are in the dark."

Moody, Dwight L. on character
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"A character is a completely fashioned will."

Novalis on character   

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"Character development is the aim of education."

O'Shea on character   

"Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us."

Paine, Thomas on character
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"Character is much easier kept than recovered."

Paine, Thomas on character   

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"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 on character   

"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 on character   

"Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance."

Parkhurst, Charles H. on character   

"I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself."

Peter The Great on character   

"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."

Petrarch, Francesco on character   

"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."

Plato on character
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"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 on character
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"Character is simply habit long continued."

Plutarch on character
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"Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies."

Pope, Alexander on character   

"If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse."

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

Proverb on character   

"Some people are born hammers, others anvils."

Proverb on character   

"Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him."

Proverb, African on character