Quotes
Quotes about Character
"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice."
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page.
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."
The 1990s customer expects service to be characterized by fast and efficient computer-based systems.
If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that goldâbillions of dollars worthâhe could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.
The history of the denial of the Armenian genocide has passed through several phases... all characterized by efforts to avoid responsibility and the moral, material, and political consequences of admission.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.
Habits form character and character is destiny.
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
