Character Quotes

Helen kelle - character can not be developed in ease and quiet....
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
John Wooden
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.
John Keats
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spence
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B. C.
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
Henry Clay
Henry david thoreau - we are armed with language adequate to describe...
Japanese prove - when the character of a man is not clear to you,...
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.
Alexander Hamilton
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Orison Swett Marden
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann von Goethe
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.
Marsha Evans
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menande
In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry Clay
Character is who you are when no one is looking.
Allan Williams
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.
Norman Douglas
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One!
Richard M. DeVos
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel Johnson
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Author Unknown
In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.
Michael Monahan
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.
John Ashcroft
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant
It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Kahlil Gibran
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
To be a book - Collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks".
Character is what you are in the dark.
American Prove
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.
Samuel Smiles
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
Antiphanes
A person without character is just as body without soul.
Ranjan
Character is what can do without success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is what you are when no one is looking.
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