Lack Of Character Quotes

• Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

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  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character   Experience   Determined  

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• If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.

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  Edward Wilmot Blyden

  Being Yourself   Character   Giving  

  1021

• Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

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  Oscar Levant

  Character   Luck   Enormous  

  Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965) ch. 11

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• It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

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  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nice   Inspiration   Character  

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

  1204

• ..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.

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  Peter McWilliams

  Depression   Character   Trying  

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

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  Alfred Jodl

  Character   Army   Should Have  

  "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 347 (August 10, 1938), 1997.

  3099

• Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

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  Will Rogers

  Inspirational   Funny   Family  

  Norman Vincent Peale, Marjorie Holmes, Arthur Gordon, Will Rogers (1995). “To father, with love: wisdom from Guideposts”, Dimensions for Living

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• It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

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  Alan Jay Lerner

  Character   Faces   Enormous  

  "Fictional character: Adam Cook". "An American in Paris", 1951.

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