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01) ‘’ Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.’’ -Friedrich Nietzsche
02) ‘’ We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.’’ – John Locke
03) ‘’ A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.’’ – King Solomon
04) ‘’ If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character.’’ -Michael Josephson
05) ‘’ How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.’’ – Henry David Thoreau
06) ‘’ A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.’’ – Winston Churchill
07) ‘’ 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.’’ -Jim Rohn
08) ‘’ My honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.’’ – William Shakespeare
09) ‘’ The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.’’ – George Bernard Shaw
10) ‘’ Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.’’ – Miguel de Cervantes
11) ‘’ Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.’’ – Will Roger
12) ‘’ One can acquire everything in solitude except character.’’ – Henri Stendhal
13) ‘’ If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.’’ – Woodrow Wilson
14) ‘’ Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.’’ -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
15) ‘’ We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character.’’ – Calvin Coolidge
16) ‘’ Wherever man goes to dwell, his character goes with him.’’ – African Proverb
17) ‘’ People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.’’ -Eleanor Roosevelt
18) ‘’ It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.’’ -Roy Disney
19) ‘’ Fortune does not change anyone; it only unmasks them.’’ -Henry O. Dormann
20) ‘’ How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. Its treasures are priceless — but they can be stolen.’’ -Charles Swindoll
21) ‘’ A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when flowers have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.’’ -Charles H. Spurgeon
22) ‘’ Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.’’ – Faith Baldwin
23) ‘’ As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.’’ – Andrew Carnegie
24) ‘’ Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone.’’ -Cyrus Bartol
25) ‘’ In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters as they are.’’ – Gamaliel Bradford
25) ‘’ The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. From the state of a man’s heart doth proceed the conditions of his life; his thoughts blossom into deeds, and his deeds bear the fruitage of character and destiny.’’ -James Allen
26) ‘’ It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.’’ – Arthur Schopenhauer
27) ‘’ If someone lacks character, “Be yourself!” is the worst advice you can give.’’ -Jeremiah Say
28) ‘’ Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.’’ -Oprah Winfrey
29) ‘’ Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.’’ -Horace Greeley
30) ‘’ Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.’’ -General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
31) ‘’ Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.’’ -Henry Clay
32) ‘’ he habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.’’ -Edwin Delattre
33) ‘’ Parents can only give [their children] good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.’’ – Anne Frank
34) ‘’ Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.’’ – Solon
35) ‘’ If you want to know what a person’s character, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.’’ -Proverb
36) ‘’ People that seem so glorious are all show. Underneath they’re like anybody else.’’ -Euripides
37) ‘’ We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.’’ -Socrates
38) ‘’ Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.’’ – Sherry Argov
39) ‘’ Character is doing what you don’t want to do but know you should do.’’ – Joyce Meyer
40) ‘’ When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.’’ -W. Somerset Maugham
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41) ‘’ All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.’’ – Sophocles, Antigone
42) ‘’ You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.’’ -Paul McCartney
43) ‘’ A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.’’ – Charlie Chaplin
44) ‘’ Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. you are what you repeatedly do.’’ -Shaquille O’Neal
45) ‘’ The measure of a man is what he does with power.’’ – Plato
46) ‘’ A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.’’ – Mahatma Gandhi
47) ‘’ Character is simply habit long continued.’’ -Plutarch
48) ‘’ Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.’’ -H. Jackson Brown
49) ‘’ Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.’’ -Seneca
50) ‘’ Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.’’ – Wayne Dyer
51) ‘’ Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.’’ -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
52) ‘’ Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.’’ – Aristotle
53) ‘’ It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.’’ – Henri Frederic Amiel
54) ‘’ It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.’’ – Aeschylus
55) ‘’ I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.’’ – Rita Mero
56) ‘’ People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.’’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
57) ‘’ It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.’’ – Frederick Douglass
58) ‘’ Character is the sum total of all our everyday choices.’’ -Margaret Jensen
59) ‘’ It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.’’ -Mark Twain
60) ‘’ choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.’’ – Oscar Wilde
61) ‘’ Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.’’ -Joan Didion
62) ‘’ Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.’’ – Criss Jami
63) ‘’ To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.’’ – Theodore Roosevelt
64) ‘’ Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.’’ – Theodore Roosevelt
65) ‘’ Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.’’ -Harper Lee
66) ‘’ To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.’’ – Confucius
67) ‘’ In the end you should always do the right thing even if it’s hard.’’ – Nicholas Sparks
68) ‘’ Ability can take you the top, but it takes character to keep you there.’’ – Zig Ziglar
69) ‘’ Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.’’ – Orison Swett Marden
70) ‘’ 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.’’ -Andre Maurois
71) ‘’ It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.’’ – Andre Gide
72) ‘’ Character is much easier kept than recovered.’’ -Thomas Paine
73) ‘’ Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.’’ -Thomas Paine
74) ‘’ The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.’’ – Thomas B. Macaulay
75) ‘’ A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.’’ -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
76) ‘’ Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.’’ – R.J. Palacio
77) ‘’ Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.’’ -Elmer G. Letterman
78) ‘’ The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.’’ – Ann Landers
79) ‘’ Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.’’ -John C. Geikie
80) ‘’ Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.’’ – J.B. Gough
81) ‘’ You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.’’ -Henry David Thoreau
82) ‘’ You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.’’ -Cassandra Clare
83) ‘’ Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.’’ – Albert Einstein
84) ‘’ Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.’’ – Albert Einstein
85) ‘’ Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.’’ -Maya Angelou
86) ‘’ Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.’’ – Abraham Lincoln
87) ‘’ Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.’’ -Abraham Lincoln
88) ‘’ Your character is formed by the challenges you face and overcome.’’ -Nick Vujicic
89) ‘’ If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.’’ – J.K. Rowling
90) ‘’ Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.’’ – George Eliot
91) ‘’ I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.’’ -Abraham Lincoln
92) ‘’ Power really is a test of character. In the hands of a person of integrity, it is of tremendous benefit; in the hands of a tyrant, it causes terrible destruction.’’ – John C. Maxwell
93) ‘’ Our characters are refined and tried by fire and when we have gone through the furnace, we emerge as pure gold and silver.’’ -Edward Dunedin
94) ‘’ Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what a reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character.’’ – Wayne W. Dyer
95) ‘’ Primary greatness is on the inside. It’s about character.’’ – Stephen Covey
96) ‘’ Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.’’ -Michael Josephson
97) ‘’ Generosity of character is important. It builds confidence by reminding you that you are a decent human being, and that you deserve any good things which might come your way.’’ – John Franz
98) ‘’ Some are blessed with physical and mental facility, but none are more prized than the one who has developed true character.’’ -Greg Henry Quinn
99) ‘’ You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.’’ – Denis Waitley
100) ‘’ It can be said that any one person’s overall character and demeanor is but a reflection of the sum total of his or her thoughts.’’ -Beau Norton
101) ‘’ Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind – you could call it character in action.’’ -Vince Lombardi
102) ‘’ When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.’’ -German Proverb
103) ‘’ Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.’’ -Jack London
104) ‘’ Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.’’ – Martin Luther King Jr.
105) ‘’ Knowledge will give you power, but character earns respect.’’ – Bruce Lee
106) ‘’ Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.’’ – Dale Carnegie
107) ‘’ Character is one of the greatest motive powers in the world. In its noblest embodiments, it exemplifies human nature in its highest forms, for it exhibits man at his best.’’ -Samuel Smiles
108) ‘’ Better to be a man of character than a man of means.’’ – Irish Proverbs
