Character Quotes

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Oscar Wilde Quote - Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Free

Oscar Wilde

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Albert Einstein Quote - Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. Free

Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Helen Keller Quote - Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Free

Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Abraham Lincoln Quote - Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. Free

Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln Quote - Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. Free

Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

William Shakespeare Quote - Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. Free

William Shakespeare

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Adam Smith Quote - In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character. Free

Adam Smith

In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.

Maya Angelou Quote - Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. Free

Maya Angelou

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

Oscar Wilde Quote - I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. Free

Oscar Wilde

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

Maya Angelou Quote - The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. Free

Maya Angelou

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself.

Adam Smith Quote - A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third. Free

Adam Smith

A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.

Aeschylus Quote - It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Free

Aeschylus

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Adam Smith Quote - Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another. Free

Adam Smith

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.

Mark Twain Quote - It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. Free

Mark Twain

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Abraham Lincoln Quote - You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence Free

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence

Adam Smith Quote - The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer. Free

Adam Smith

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

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