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Quotations by Subject: Character (40 quotes)

Results from Poor Man's College:

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.: Ricther
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character.: Hosea Ballou (1796 - 1861)
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.: David Seabury
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.: Tyron Edwards
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered: but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battle.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.: Norman Douglas
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

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