Character Quotes
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.Mahatma Gandhi
Character is much easier kept than recovered.Thomas Paine
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.Marquis de Sade
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
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.Henry David Thoreau
Character is what you are when no one is looking.Unknown
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.Thomas Jefferson
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.Anon.
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.Aristophanes
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.Henry David Thoreau
Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.Alphonse Ka
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.Theodore Roosevelt
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.David Seabury
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.Lord John Whorfin
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Kelle
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.Tyron Edwards
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.Orison Swett Marden
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.Henry Ford
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.Malcolm Forbes
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
Sow an act... reap a habit Sow a habit... reap a character Sow a character... reap a destiny.George Dana Boardman
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.Charles Reade
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.Frances E. Willard
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
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.Francis Thompson
Pride sullies the noblest character.Claudianus
A person without character is just as body without soul.Ranjan
Our character... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.George Santayana, "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis".
The character of a man is known from his conversations.Menande
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.Johann von Goethe
What makes a good follower The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.Warren Bennis
