• Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.1 · 16 votes · 0 reads

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• Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  3.8 · 49 votes · 117 reads

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• That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 30 votes · 101 reads

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• The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.1 · 64 votes · 134 reads

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• The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 102 reads

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• The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  5.0 · 11 votes · 119 reads

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• The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.0 · 22 votes · 184 reads

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• The highest qualities of character… must be earned.

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  Lyman Abbott

  PoliticianAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.5 · 18 votes · 51 reads

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• The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  3.0 · 28 votes · 6 reads

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• The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.2 · 36 votes · 77 reads

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• The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.5 · 8 votes · 139 reads

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• There are charms made only for distance admiration.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.9 · 17 votes · 144 reads

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• There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.6 · 9 votes · 40 reads

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• They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.7 · 62 votes · 161 reads

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• Things forbidden have a secret charm.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  4.5 · 34 votes · 169 reads

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• Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.3 · 56 votes · 165 reads

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• 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

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.8 · 14 votes · 198 reads

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• 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 knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own characte

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.6 · 38 votes · 155 reads

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• Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.4 · 56 votes · 25 reads

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• Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 56 votes · 171 reads

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• We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.9 · 13 votes · 129 reads

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• We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.9 · 24 votes · 42 reads

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• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 31 votes · 74 reads

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• Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.7 · 57 votes · 186 reads

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• Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  4.7 · 58 votes · 79 reads

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• What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  3.6 · 41 votes · 70 reads

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• When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.4 · 29 votes · 54 reads

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• When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.2 · 43 votes · 178 reads

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• You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  3.0 · 54 votes · 30 reads

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• You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.4 · 24 votes · 89 reads

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• You must look into people, as well as at them.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  3.0 · 24 votes · 191 reads

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