The repository contains 36 quotes in the category “Character.”
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Don’t waste your time thinking about who you ought to be, just be content with who you’re becoming.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine
1737 — 1809
Man made the money, money never made the man.
Character is what you are in the dark.
You can tell a man’s character by what he turns up when offered a job, his nose or his sleeves.
Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.
President Theodore Roosevelt
1858 — 1919
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer and nobler type of manhood.
President Theodore Roosevelt
1858 — 1919
Christmas is a time when everyone wants his past forgotten and the present remembered!
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
Edmund Burke
1729 — 1797
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.
Alistair Cooke
1908 — 2004
The worst men often give the best advice.
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
Bernard Berenson
1865 — 1959
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks
1835 — 1893
Refusing help during a fire:
Because of my title I was the first to enter here. I shall be the last to go out.
Duchesse d’ Alençon
1847 — 1897
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
William Phelps
1865 — 1943
I don’t know which is worse: that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low.
Bill Watterson
1958 —
If you want to know what a man is really like, make notice how he acts when he loses money.
A person’s character is defined by the decisions they make without having time to think about their consequences.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Choose your words, for they become actions.
Understand your actions, for they become habits.
Study your habits, for they will become your character.
Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny.
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