Character Quotes

Character Quotes

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• 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


• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


• 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 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


• To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

Mark Twain


• Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein


• 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


• This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him

William Lyon Phelps


• There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Benjamin Franklin


• The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.

Mohandas K. Gandhi


• Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death. Eleanor Roosevelt


• All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Scott Alexander


• What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Victor Frankly


• If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

Woodrow Wilson


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Character Quotes