C Quotes
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“Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses”
“Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person of character is a good parent, a good friend, a good employee and a good citizen.”
“Character is just what we inwardly are and outwardly do.”
Source: Eternity's breath: aphorisms and essays
“Character is Key for Liberty.”
Source: George Washington's Liberty Key: Mount Vernon's Bastille Key – the Mystery and Magic of Its Body, Mind, and Soul
“Character is less about what we do wrong
And
All about what we make right....”
“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit
“Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
“Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.”
“Character is like 'Structural Integrity' in the field of engineering.
A construction is believed to have structural integrity when it can withstand 'impact' from anywhere and anything, functioning adequately for its desired purposes and service life, until a physical collapse proves otherwise.
'Integrity' springs from the original Latin root 'integrum', which means "Intact".
A man has INTEGRITY when he remains INTACT, despite the IMPACT of forces that seek to sidetrack him.
He will never confuse "what is" with "what ought to be", EVEN WHEN "what is" will work in his favour.
A man who will choose, not what the world forces his hands to choose, but what aligns with his destiny and will propel him to become what he is meant to become.
Such men are few, such men should be me and you.”
Source: The Soldier Within
“Character is long-standing habit.”
“Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.”
“Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.”
“Character is made up of core moral principles called the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, caring, fairness and citizenship. Each of these virtues are independently important but together they provide the foundation for a worthy life.”
“Character is mental and moral qualities distinctive to every individual, but it is constant in those who have courage to make a commitment and live with it.”
“Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.”
“Character is more important than any other leadership trait.”
“Character is more important than fame. Fame is just floating clouds that can rain at any time.”
“Character is more important than talent.”
“Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.”
“Character is much easier kept than recovered, and that man, if any such there be, who, from sinister views, or littleness of soul, lends unseen his hand to injure it, contrives a wound it will never be in his power to heal.”
Source: The Crisis
“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
Source: The American Crisis
“Character is never built in a classroom; it is developed through the circumstances of life.”
“Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.”
“Character is no longer shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world’s a sage.”
“Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Character is not made by crisis. It is only exhibited.”
“character is not made in a crisis- it is only exhibited”
“Character is not only doing the right thing when no one is looking, it's doing the right thing when everyone is looking. It's being willing to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.”
“Character is not purchased with a dance in the street. It's expensive and hard to come by. Though it is the heir of disappointment, betrayal and frustration, it is not the inheritance that matters but what you do with it. No one ever developed their character by arranging their experiences in such a way that only ‘good’ things are allowed to happen.”
“Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.”
Source: On Character: Essays
“Character is not what you show but who you are.”
“Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions.
We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.”
“Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.”
“Character is perfectly educated will.”
“Character is plot, plot is character.”
“Character is power; it is the invisible force that commands respect and shapes destiny. Without character, power is fleeting; with character, power is eternal.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Character is power.”
“Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.”
“Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.”
“Character is reflected in our attitude and submission toward governing authority”
“Character is revealed in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to detect the hunger of others when we are hungry; and in the power to reach out and extend compassion for the spiritual agony of others when we are in the midst of our own spiritual distress.”
“Character is revealed through action.”
“Character is simply habit long continued.”
“Character is social, and society, since it is the expression of character, spiritual.”
“Character is something each one of us must build for himself, out of the laws of God and nature, the examples of others, and - most of all - out of the trials and errors of daily life. Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us. Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honest to choose the right.”
“Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.”
Source: Clearing the ground
“Character is standing tall and guiding others.”
Source: Rousing Cadence
“Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.”
“Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.”
Source: Historical Essays and Studies: Great Event