Character

(78 votes)   If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed
c.570-c.632, Meccan Spiritual Leader

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(501 votes)   Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(340 votes)   To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(250 votes)   When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(238 votes)   It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(229 votes)   Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist

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(220 votes)   If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(211 votes)   My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Earl of Arran

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(202 votes)   Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(185 votes)   Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(178 votes)   A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist

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(176 votes)   The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(168 votes)   If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

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(151 votes)   The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(150 votes)   It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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