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Sunday, 6 July 2008
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"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life." (Congreve, William - Joy)

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Browse Quotations about Character

A character is a completely fashioned will.
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
A man's character is his guardian divinity.
A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
A rich man has no need of character.
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou
Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Character development is the aim of education.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Character is a victory, not a gift.
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
Character is our destiny.
Character is power.
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
Character is simply habit long continued.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
Character is victory organized.
Character is what you are in the dark.
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
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.
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
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.
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.