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A Select Collection of Character Quotations

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Aristotle: Character Quotations
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Archibald Alexander: Character Quotations
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Winston Churchill: Character Quotations
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

William Shakespeare: Character Quotations
Men should be what they seem.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Character Quotations
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Martha Boaz: Character Quotations
Moral courage and character go hand in hand... a man of real character is consistently courageous, being imbued with a basic integrity and a firm sense of principle.

Abraham Lincoln: Character Quotations
Nearly all men can stand adversity. But if you want to test a man's character - give him power.

Benjamin Disraeli: Character Quotations
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Character Quotations
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Character Quotations
No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty.

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