Quotes with character…

Quotes 441 till 460 of 464.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Clarence Darrow With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Susan Sontag With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease - because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Norman Douglas You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Ronald Reagan You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Seneca You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Abraham Lincoln You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • James Froude You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bubba Smith You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield You must never seem to affect the character in which you have a mind to shine. Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
    Letters (1892)
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Vauvenargues You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Richard Nixon You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • David Hume Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Marva Collins Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
    Marva Collins
    American educator (1936 - 2015)
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