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Character

The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is," embraces the whole of man's being. It is so comprehensive that it reaches out to every condition and circumstance of life. A man is literally what he thinks. His character is the sum of his thoughts.--James Allen
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.--John Wooden
Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.--Dale Turner (Seattle Times, 4/24/99)
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.--Abigail van Buren
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.--Faith Baldwin ("July" Harvest of Hope)
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.--Helen Keller
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.--James A. Michener (Chesapeake)
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.--Jacqueline Bisset
Character development is the great, if not the sole, aim of education.--O'Shea
Character develops itself in the stream of life.--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Character is power.--Booker T. Washington
Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.--Arthur Trudeau
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.--Helen Gahagan Douglas
Character may be manifested in the greatest moments, but it is made in the small ones.--Phillips Brooks
Character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.--Joan Didion
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.--Unknown
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.--Laura Schlessinger
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.-- Bernard Baruch
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.--J.C. Watts
The force, the mass of character, mind, heart, or soul that a man can put into any work is the most important factor in that work.--A. P. Peabody
From a timid, shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.--Anna Dostoevsky
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.--Paul Theroux
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.-H. Jackson Brown
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need to come face-to-face with the fact that you are thinking too much of yourself. After all, your feelings are not the most important thing in this world.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.--Mark Twain
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...--Samuel Smiles
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.--Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf
Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.--Henry Ford
Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway.--John-Roger (Life 101)
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.--Jean Paul Richter
A man's character is determined by how hard he fights for what he believes in.--Aben Kandel and Warren Duff (The Iron Major (film))
The measure of a man sir, is not in money, position, station or possessions. These things mean nothing. The measure of a man is in his character, wisdom, ability, aliveness, intimacy, creativity, courage, fearlessness, perspective, independence and maturity.
You seem terribly impressed with the former sir, which suggests you are seriously lacking in the latter.--Mark W. B. Brinton
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.--T.B. Macaulay
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.--Albert Einstein
My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity.--Chief Wilma Mankiller
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
One way of getting along with people is the ability to give in. Strength of character means the ability to give in to others from motives of love, kindness, and humility, and to do so gracefully, when no sin is involved. It also means the ability to stand on principle, and not to give in, when sin is involved.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.--Aesop
Parents can only give 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
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.--G. C. Lichtenberg
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Worship" The Conduct of Life)
The real judges of your character aren't your neighbors, your relatives, or even the people you play bridge with. The folks who really know you are waiters, waitresses, and clerks.--Katherine Piper
Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away.--William Hersey Davis
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.--Will Rogers
Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny.--George D. Boardman
Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.--Glen Beaman
Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.--Goethe
Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.--Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."--Frederick L. Collins
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.--Tryon Edwards
Watch your thoughts, they become your words
Watch your words, they become your actions
Watch your actions, they become your habits
Watch your habits, they become your character
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.--Anonymous
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy, and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.--Dorothy Day
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.-- Euripides
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious priviledge that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.--John Bartholomew Gough
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.--Edgar Watson Howe
What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it.--Rudyard Kipling
When men speak ill of you, live so as nobody may believe them.--Plato
You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy--happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc. without character.--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)