Quotes About Character

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament, not of income.

Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because, however successful he may be in overcoming them, he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

People remain what they are, even when their faces fall to pieces.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

Learn what you are, and be such.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.

It is what you are inside that matters. You, yourself, are your only real capital.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

For birth control I rely on my personality.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

One can acquire everything in solitude but character.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.