It’s easier to see another person’s deceit than your own. But when self deception goes unchecked and rationalized, it tarnishes the character.
Character Quotes
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. We can only see what we are, and if we misbehave we suspect others.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
You, my lord, are a judge; I am the supposed culprit. I am a man; you are a man also. By a revolution of power we might change places, though we could never change characters.
Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.
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.
In my opinion the best character is generally that which is least talked about.
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character […]
Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.
