It is the character that makes people different. If everybody has the same character, the world would lose all its colors and variety. Thanks to the DNA, circumstances and the zillions of philosophical and theosophical ideologies that we subscribe to, we are different. Even though the modern, corporate culture seeks to make us perform at the same levels, we are still different. These days, when the world is a global village, the differences in cultures and individuals may be blurring but they still exist. Here's hoping the vibrancy of earth stays and survives in the differences that its inhabitants exhibit. Read these character quotes to know more about the subject.
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Character Quotes
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
![]() Rudyard Kipling |
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
![]() Bruce Lee |
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
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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.
![]() Jean Paul |
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
![]() Frederick Buechner |
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
![]() John Dewey |
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
![]() Marilyn Manson |
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
![]() Marie Curie |
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
![]() Marie Curie |
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
![]() Marie Curie |
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
![]() Michael Jordan |
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
![]() Indira Gandhi |
Calmness is the cradle of power.
![]() J. G. Holland |
I've never been afraid to fail.
![]() Michael Jordan |
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
![]() J. G. Holland |
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
![]() Michael Jordan |
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
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I hate victims who respect their executioners.
![]() Jean Paul Sartre |
There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
![]() Jean Paul Sartre |
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
![]() Carl Rogers |
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.
![]() O. J. Simpson |
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
![]() Dame Agatha Christie |
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
![]() Aesop |
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
![]() Milan Kundera |
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
![]() Aesop |
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
![]() Aesop |
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
![]() Aesop |
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
![]() Thomas Carlyle |
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.
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Louis, I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship.
![]() Humphrey Bogart |
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
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Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
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I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
![]() Clint Eastwood |
Men must know their limitations.
![]() Clint Eastwood |
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
![]() Clint Eastwood |
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
![]() Richard P. Feynman |
The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
![]() Clint Eastwood |
I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
![]() Dolly Parton |
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
![]() Dolly Parton |
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
![]() Dolly Parton |
And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.
![]() Angelina Jolie |
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
![]() Sammy Davis, Jr. |
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
![]() Charles Barkley |
I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.
![]() Angelina Jolie |
I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
![]() Angelina Jolie |
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
![]() Angelina Jolie |
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
![]() B. C. Forbes |
All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
![]() B. C. Forbes |
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
![]() Fidel Castro |
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.”
![]() J. C. Watts |
A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
![]() Jack Nicholson |
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
![]() Fidel Castro |
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
![]() Fidel Castro |
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
![]() Fidel Castro |
I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
![]() Cher |
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's.
![]() George Michael |
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.
![]() Cher |
I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.
![]() Cher |
Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
![]() Cher |
If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
![]() Janis Joplin |
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
![]() Janis Joplin |
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
![]() Cher |
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
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When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.
![]() Joe Strummer |
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
![]() Titus |
Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.
![]() Joe Strummer |
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