Character Quotes

Ricthe - we learn our virtues from our friends who love...
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common - Sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.
Rose Dorothy Freeman
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
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
H. jackson browne, p. s. i love you - our character is what we do when we think no one...
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
Franklin P. Adams
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
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
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
Richard m. devos - if i had to select one quality, one personal...
One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.
Marie Stendhal
Freedom and indedendence form my character.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24. 04. 1921
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".
Character is power.
Booker T. Washington
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington
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
A person without character is just as body without soul.
Ranjan
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
Character cannot 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
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Prove
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
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
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.
Donald Creighton
Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Ka
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
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
Michael Caine, www. aint - It - Cool - News. com
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt