Character Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself. |
| - Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. |
| - Elihu Burritt |
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| 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 is, the better it fits him. |
| - Cicero |
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| Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. |
| - Confucius |
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| People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. |
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| A man's character is his fate. |
| - Heraclitus |
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| People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. |
| - Hermann Hesse |
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| The character of every act depends upon the circumstance in which it is done. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Jr. Holmes |
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| Character cannot be developed in ease and quite. Only through experience of trail and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. |
| - Helen Keller |
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| Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. |
| - Elmer G. Letterman |
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| Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. |
| - Oscar Levant |
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| A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. |
| - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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| 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 |
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| Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. |
| - Japanese Proverb |
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| You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. |
| - Ronald Reagan |
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| People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is build. |
| - Eleanor Roosevelt |
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| Our character… is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiney is likely to be. |
| - George Santayana |
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| In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. |
| - Francis Thompson |
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