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A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay. — Confucius

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races
by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character. — Edward Abbey

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next. — Nathanael Emmons

A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left. — J. Arthur Thomson

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States. — Edmund Randolph

America has but one main problem
the character of the men and women it shall produce. — Calvin Coolidge

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion. — Daniel J. Boorstin

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron. — Samuel Smiles

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. — Seneca The Younger

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances. — Confucius

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man. — Edmund Burke

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character? — Mencius

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it. — George Whitefield

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible. — Mark Twain

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Men who wield great violence at home against their wives and children are invariably people of weak character. — Haruki Murakami

A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is. — Jack Miner

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie. — Marcus Aurelius

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance. — Pablo Picasso

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. — Nathanael Emmons

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men. — Samuel Adams

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. — Elliott Abrams

The small meannesses bred by the law of competition corrode men's character as rust spoils steel. — Frances E. Willard

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. — Jose Marti

You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men. — Jeffrey Archer

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work. — Johann Gottlieb Fichte

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances. — George Bernard Shaw

May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character. — Michael Jackson

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile. — Ezra Taft Benson

The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family. — Ellen J. Barrier

Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather. — Robertson Davies

Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm,
none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship. — Henry Van Dyke

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind. — Magha

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William. — Josh Billings

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels. — George Henry Lewes

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man. — Creighton W. Abrams Jr.

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character. — Arthur Helps

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character. — Harry S. Truman

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. — George Bernard Shaw

There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul's strength into all of your life's actions. — Eugenio Maria De Hostos

Men of character continued to sail to their death for men of greed. — Barry Lopez

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience. — David Lloyd George

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. — Edmund Burke

The history of a man is in his character. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. — Mark Twain

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own. — Joseph P. Farrell

You can stop a raging forest fire, a herd of stampeding buffalo or even a runaway freight train, but you can't stop a good man. — John Paul Warren

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books. — Baltasar Gracian

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. — Jean De La Bruyere

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes. — Henry David Thoreau

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man. — Mencius

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative. — Romola Garai

I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character. — John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

Reputation is what men say about you on your tombstone;
Character is what the angels say about you before the throne of God — William Hersey Davis

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. — Woodrow Wilson

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders. — Herbert Hoover

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. — Swami Vivekananda

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men. — James Madison

Men of few words are the best men."

(3.2.41) — William Shakespeare

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct. — Arthur Helps

A real woman is a work of fiction a real man is a short report — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character. — Thomas A. Edison

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue. — Oswald Chambers

Man's character is the product of his premises. — Ayn Rand

Fortune is no real thing.
But men who cannot bear what comes to them
In Nature's way, give their own characters
The name of Fortune. — Menander

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. — Max Beerbohm

The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm. — Sathya Sai Baba

Men of character always differentiate their long letters, however illegibly they may write. - Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle

Men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence. — Geraldine Jewsbury

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations. — Calvin Coolidge

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell. — Raheel Farooq

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed. — Robert E.Lee

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. — Henry Clay

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man. — Samuel Smiles

The power of a woman is in her beauty. Show it off every time you have the chance — Bangambiki Habyarimana

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters. — Henry David Thoreau

Only men of character are trusted. — Zig Ziglar

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face? — Ann Radcliffe

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. — Aeschylus

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. — W. Somerset Maugham

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them. — Mahatma Gandhi

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be. — Nelson Mandela

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them. — Phyllis Bottome

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you. — Ahad Ha'am

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The greatest possesion of man is character — Marcus Garvey

Beware of men who name their products with the initials of their own character. — Mel Croucher

The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men. — Frances Wright

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man. — Edward Gibbon

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel. — Henry Taylor

I do not like assassins, or men of low character. — Gene Hackman

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels. — William Shakespeare