Character Quotes
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
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
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.Horace Mann
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.Jennifer Jones
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.Theodore Roosevelt
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.Seneca, Epistles
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.Tyron Edwards
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.Samuel Johnson
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
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.James Albert Michene
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.Rose Dorothy Freeman
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.Oscar Levant
If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935
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
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.Eleanor H. Porte
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B. C.
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
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 every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.Franklin P. Adams
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
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 builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.Faith Baldwin
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
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.Elmer G. Letterman
I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.Martin Luther King, Jr.
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
