Quotes with character

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  • Horace Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Aristotle Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Katharine Hepburn To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Wooden Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Aristotle Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oswald Chambers Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Horace Greeley Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
    Horace Greeley
    American editor (1811 - 1872)
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  • Bayard Taylor Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Robert Burns Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Lydia M. Child Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Baruch Spinoza For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
    Tractatus Politicus
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Ovid Habits change into character.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Samuel Johnson If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is by patience and self-control that the truly heroic character is perfected.
    Character Ch. VI
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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