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“Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.”

Way Character Certain Challenges Virtue Events Habit Mark Vices Disposition Profile Bad Habits Good Habits

Author:Thomas Lickona

“All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts.”

Mind Heart May States Certain Particular Habit Consequence Enjoyment Disposition Heart And Mind Wretchedness Habits Of Mind

Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.”

Men Birth Habit Vices Contrary Savages Disposition

Author:Plutarch

“In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.”

Ifs Knows World Teach Mankind Habit Resources Faults Driven Employment Miserable Boredom Gambling Disposition Hostility Amusing Gaming Ennui

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Babies are born with neither good nor bad character. Normal people - as they grow, learn and are trained - develop better or worse dispositions and habits of conduct.”

People Character Grows Born Baby Habit Normal Disposition Bad Character

Author:Edwin J Delattre

“We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.”

Ifs Character Born Moral Achieve Ignorance Habit Ideals Weak Disposition Good Character Weak Character

Book:Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing

Source: Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing

“Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races, or between nearly-allied natural forms, they use this fact as an argument that all are descended from a common progenitor who was thus endowed; and consequently that all should be classed under the same species. The same argument may be applied with much force to the races of man.”

Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

“Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.”

People Reason Eye Ought Habit Fixed Disposition

Author:Francesco Guicciardini