Character Quotes
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.Hermann Hesse
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.Henry David Thoreau
Character is what you are in the dark.American Prove
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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 influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.Macleod
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.Euripides
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
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
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 peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.Benjamin Franklin
Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.Sir Ronald A. Fishe
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.Freeman John Dyson
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.Anon.
We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - The hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.John Locke
The discipline of desire is the background of character.John Locke
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.Japanese Prove
A rich man has no need of character.Hebrew Prove
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.John Ballantine Gough
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.Phillips Brooks
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
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.Albert Einstein
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
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
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.Oscar Levant
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
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.John Wooden
