{"id":464,"date":"2016-05-13T08:20:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T13:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2016-05-13T08:20:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T13:20:52","slug":"Famous_Quotes_about_Character_223_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=464","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes about Character (223 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<div>A character is a completely fashioned will.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=9026\" title=\"1772-1801, German Poet, Novelist\">Novalis<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=5559\" title=\"1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist\">Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=10722\" title=\"1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher\">Charles Haddon Spurgeon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=9834\" title=\"1763-1825, German Novelist\">Jean Paul Richter<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=10861\" title=\"1849-1912, Swedish Dramatist, Novelist, Poet\">J. August Strindberg<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=6528\" title=\"1901-, American - Founder Philosophical Research Society\">Manly Hall<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>A man&#39;s character is his guardian divinity.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=6774\" title=\"535-475 BC, Greek Philosopher\">Heraclitus<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>A man&#39;s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=3632\" title=\"1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer\">Henry Ward Beecher<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>A man&#39;s reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=8630\" title=\"\">Jack Miner<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=7934\" title=\"1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist\">Georg C. Lichtenberg<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>A rich man has no need of character.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=9582\" title=\"Sayings of Hebrew Origin\">Hebrew Proverb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=7767\" title=\"1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic\">Johann Kaspar Lavater<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=3981\" title=\"1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer\">Christian Nevell Bovee<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=9187\" title=\"1182-1251, Tibetan Grand Lama of Saskya\">Saskya Pandita<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=11447\" title=\"1922-, American Novelist\">Kurt Vonnegut Jr.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=3785\" title=\"Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism\">Bible<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=4698\" title=\"106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician\">Marcus T. Cicero<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=11865\" title=\"1910-, American Basketball Coach\">John Wooden<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=3081\" title=\"1375 BC, Egyptian King, Monotheist\">Akhenaton<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;padding-bottom:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=4639\" title=\"1694-1773, British Statesman, Author\">Lord Chesterfield<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<table width=\"100%\" style=\"border-left-style:none;border-right-style:none;\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 0 2px;text-align:left;border-top: 1px solid lightgray;border-bottom: 1px solid lightgray;border-left-style:none;border-right-style:none;\">Quotations 1 to 20 of 223<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 0 2px;width:50px;border-top: 1px solid lightgray;border-bottom: 1px solid lightgray;border-left-style:none;border-right-style:none;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 0 2px;width:90px;border-top: 1px solid lightgray;border-bottom: 1px solid lightgray;border-left-style:none;border-right-style:none;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 0 2px;width:55px;border-top: 1px solid lightgray;border-bottom: 1px solid lightgray;border-left-style:none;border-right-style:none;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=465\">Next ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 0 2px;width:50px;border-top: 1px solid lightgray;border-bottom: 1px solid lightgray;border-left-style:none;border-right-style:none;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=475\">Last<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A character is a completely fashioned will. Novalis A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. 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