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Quotes About Character

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.
~ C. S. Lewis
Hold on to your life and make it honest and brave.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
The workshop of character is everyday life.
~ Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.
~ Tony Goldwyn
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.
~ Honore de Balzac
The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
~ Izaak Walton
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
~ Jane Austen
Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.
~ John Bartholomew Gough
the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.
~ Frank E. Peretti
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
Character is what you are in the dark.
~ Dwight L. Moody
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
~ Epictetus
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.
~ Nigel Barker
What matters in life is not so much what happens to us, but what happens in us
~ Rick Warren
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
~ Aesop
A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.
~ Aesop
The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
~ Annie Dillard
A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie and Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life.
~ Antwone Fisher
The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.
~ Brenda Barnes
A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
~ Jules Renard
We do many things we shouldn't in the course of a life. It doesn't make them right or wrong, just a part of who we are.
~ Lorenzo Carcaterra