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Quotes About Character

Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone.
~ Paulo Coelho
We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.
~ Steve Gleason
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
~ A. B. Simpson
We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?
~ Confucius
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
~ B. C. Forbes
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
~ Thomas Holcroft
Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your future.
~ Richard Branson
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
~ Albert Camus
If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.
~ Jeremy Piven
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
~ Rollo May
I've made mistakes but the beauty of life is that each regret builds character and makes us a better person
~ Vitor Belfort
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
~ George Eliot
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
~ J.M. Coetzee
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.
~ Andrew Carnegie
The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.
~ Arsene Wenger
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.
~ Joseph Addison
There's more to life than cheek bones.
~ Kate Winslet
I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.
~ Denis Waitley
Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
~ Orison Swett Marden
All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.
~ Colin Powell
Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.
~ William Ernest Henley
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
~ Steve Jobs