Character Quotes
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.Jennifer Jones
We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - The hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.John Locke
Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.I Ching
Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.Anne Besant
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.Lord John Whorfin
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
Character develops itself in the stream of life.Johann von Goethe
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.Woodrow Wilson
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.Elias Boudinot
During my eighty - Seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.Bernard Mannes Baruch
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.Anne Besant
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.William Carleton
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man.Saskya Pandita
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.Sir John Gielgud
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.Tyron Edwards
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.Henry David Thoreau
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.Tryon Edwards
The discipline of desire is the background of character.John Locke
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.Richard Hofstadte
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.Benjamin Franklin
One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.Marie Stendhal
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.Sir Ronald A. Fishe
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.Seneca, Epistles
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.Donald Creighton
