(59 votes)   All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(35 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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(206 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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(172 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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(169 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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(148 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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(128 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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(121 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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(102 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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(100 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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(94 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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(80 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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(76 votes)   In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(74 votes)   I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: ''This is the real me!''.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(73 votes)   Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Alphonse Karr

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