Character Quotes

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There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it ill behoves any of us To find fault with the rest of us. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
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She was and is (what can there more be said?) On earth the first, in heaven the second maid. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
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They love, they hate, but cannot do without him. (Quote by - Aristophanes)
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In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick; A metaphor taken--I have not the page aright-- From an ethical work by the Stagyrite. (Quote by - Richard Harris Barham)
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Knight without fear and without reproach. (Quote by - Richard Harris Barham)
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Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms. (Quote by - James Beattie)
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Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
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Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
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Most men are bad. (Quote by - Bias of Priene)
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But now, after that ye have known God, or rather or known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? (Quote by - Bible)
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And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. (Quote by - Bible)
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A great unrecognized incapacity. (Quote by - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck)
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. (Quote by - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck)
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No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
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Your father used to come home to my mother, and why may not I be a chippe of the same block out of which you two were cutte? (Quote by - A.H. Bullen)
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Are you a bromide? (Quote by - Frank Gelett Burgess)
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He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
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From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild: They follow the beck of a baleful star, Their paths are dream-beguiled. (Quote by - Richard Eugene Burton)
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Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . . he had two distinct persons in him. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
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Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
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So well she acted all and every part By turns--with that vivacious versatility, Which many people take for want of heart. They err--'tis merely what is call'd mobility, A thing of temperament and not of art, Though seeming so, from its supposed facility; And false--though true; for surely they're sincerest Who are strongly acted on by what is nearest. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
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With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth, His early dreams of good out-stripp'd the truth, And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
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Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage; Noble by heritage, Generous and free. (Quote by - Henry Carey)
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We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. (Quote by - Jonathan Edwards)
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. (Quote by - Vernon Howard)
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You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him. (Quote by - Robert C. Savage)
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Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got. (Quote by - Janis Joplin)
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Only the mediocre are always at their best! (Quote by - Johnathan Winters)
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Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (Quote by - Horace)
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There are four types of people: Smart and lazy, Smart and full of energy, Stupid and lazy, Stupid and full of energy (Quote by - Leif Summerfield)
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Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man that you can paint the air. (Quote by - Vernon Howard)
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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. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these help instead of hinder, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. (Quote by - James Buckham)
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
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If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything. (Quote by - Anonymous)
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. (Quote by - G. C. Lichtenberg)
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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and ;Independence. (Quote by - Edward Rickenbacker)
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Character is a victory, not a gift. (Quote by - Anonymous)
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
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Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. (Quote by - Alphonse Karr)
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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You must look into people, as well as at them. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
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There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, ;or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. (Quote by - George Matthew Adams)
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Character is what you are in the dark. (Quote by - Dwight Moody)
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What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
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