Character Quotes
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.Janet Jackson
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B. C.
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.Claiborne Pell
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.Hermann Hesse
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - From lack of character.Dag Hammarskjld
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.Thomas Jefferson
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.Anonymous
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
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
Education has for its object the formation of character.Herbert Spence
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
One can acquire everything in solitude - Except character.Marie Henri Beyle
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.Stendhal
Character is what you are in the dark.American Prove
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
We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - The hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.John Locke
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.Samuel Johnson
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.Henry Clay
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
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.Francis Thompson
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
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
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.James Albert Michene
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
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.Solon
Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.R. C. Samsel
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.Jennifer Jones
What made the deepest impression upon you? inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders? - - - - The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls, Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, was where in the world did all that water come from?Author Unknown
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.Arnold Toynbee
One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.Marie Stendhal
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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".
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
