The Best Quotes on Character
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Here are some of the best quotes on character from famous people, some of whom were real characters themselves...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
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
--Elmer G. Letterman
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
--Confucius
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
--Elbert Hubbard
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
--Elihu Burritt
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
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
--Francis Thompson
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the
soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
--Helen Keller
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
A man's character is his fate.
--Heraclitus
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
--Hermann Hesse
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
--James A. Froude
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
--Japanese Proverb
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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