Lack Of Character Quotes

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

  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.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nice, Inspiration, Character

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Character, Faces, Enormous

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

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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

  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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• 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.

  Edward Wilmot Blyden

  Being Yourself, Character, Giving

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Experience, Determined

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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.

  Alfred Jodl

  Character, Army, Should Have

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

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• ..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.

  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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