Character Quotes And Sayings

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“Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire. That’s why black magic is so easy—it comes from lust, from fear and anger, from things that are easy to feed and make grow. The sort I do is harder. It comes from something deeper than that, a truer and purer source—harder to tap, harder to keep, but ultimately more elegant, more powerful. My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour. It came from my love of a good steak, from the way I would sometimes cry at a good movie or a moving symphony. From my life. From the hope that I could make things better for someone else, if not always for me. Somewhere, in all of that, I touched on something that wasn’t tapped out, in spite of how horrible the past days had been, something that hadn’t gone cold and numb inside of me. I grasped it, held it in my hand like a firefly, and willed its energy out, into the circle I had created with the spinning amulet on the end of its chain.”
– Jim Butcher

“Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.”
– Jim Rohn

“Nine requisites for contented living:
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”
– John Adams

“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.”
– John Burroughs

“Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.”
– John C. Maxwell

“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”
– John Locke

“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.”
– John Stuart Mill

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
– John Wooden

“Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.”
– John Wooden

“Character is doing what you don’t want to do but know you should do.”
– Joyce Meyer

“To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.”
– Katharine Hepburn

“Beauty has a lot to do with character.”
– Kevyn Aucoin

“Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.”
– Lawrence G. Lovasik

“There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role–hero, heroine, or villain…. Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life … the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person’s heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.”
– Lionel Shriver

“Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.”
– Louis Farrakhan

“Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“To measure the man, measure his heart.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

“Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
– Mark Twain

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Times will change for the better when you change.”
– Maxwell Maltz

“Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
– Maya Angelou

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
– Maya Angelou

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