The repository contains 36 quotes in the category “Character.”
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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.
President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865
Don’t value a man for the quality he is of, but for the qualities he possesses.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.
Voltaire
1694 — 1778
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire
1694 — 1778
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
President John F. Kennedy
1917 — 1963
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Goethe
1749 — 1832
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers
1918 — 2002
Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard
1856 — 1915
A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Goethe
1749 — 1832
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
1880 — 1968
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Duke François de La Rochefoucauld
1613 — 1680
We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
Duke François de La Rochefoucauld
1613 — 1680
For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.
Grantland Rice
1880 — 1954
"Alumnus Football"
The world is a place that’s gone from being flat to round to crooked.
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