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Quotes About Character

Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
~ Charles Alexander Eastman
We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.
~ Frederic Farrar
If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.
~ Sean Bean
I admire some people for their brilliance and I respect others for their strength. But I am indebted to those who can rekindle my spirit.
~ Steve Goodier
Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.
~ Plutarch
Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go.
~ Thomas S. Monson
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.
~ John Gay
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
~ William Hazlitt
Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
~ George Washington
I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty. As it turns out, Jack Will didn't need to learn any of these virtues- he already had them in abundance.
~ R.J. Palacio
A man becomes like those whose society he loves.
~ Hindu proverb
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
~ Euripides
Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
~ Faith Baldwin
Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.
~ Thomas Fuller
By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues and vices which they possess even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odors.
~ The Panchatantra
I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
~ Euripides
Tell me whom you frequent and I will tell you who you are.
~ French proverb