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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
P. B. Fitzwater
Perfection of character consists in this; living each day as if it were the last, and spending each moment in peace.
Marcus Aurelius
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Peter The Great
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.
John Greenleaf Whittier, A Song
No fate could rob us of our own-- No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For what was ours we still possess.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Possession
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
Confucius
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.
Charles de Gaulle
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Ava Gardner
Character development is the aim of education.
O'Shea
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
Edward Young
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Mary Caroline Richards
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Andre Maurois
To produce things and to rear them,To produce, but not to take possession of them,To act, but not to rely on one's own ability,To lead them, but not to master them -This is called profound and secret virtue.
LaoTzu, The Way of Laotzu
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant
