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Famous Quotes on Character

A Select Collection of Famous Quotes on Character

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Marcus Aurelius
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be, be one.

Author Unknown
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

Earle J. Glade
We are where we are, as we are, because of what we are.

Francois Fenelon
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

John Dryden
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Arthur Schopenhauer
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Winston Churchill
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Abraham Lincoln
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Unknown Author
We teach what we live.

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