Character Quotes

Freedom and indedendence form my character.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24. 04. 1921
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
Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.
Unknown
Oliver wendell holmes jr. - the character of every act depends upon the...
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
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".
There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
Henry david thoreau - in dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our...
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
D. L. Moody
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides
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
Character is power.
Booker T. Washington
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.
The Buddha
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones
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
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca, Epistles
Pride sullies the noblest character.
Claudianus
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
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
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
Henry David Thoreau
I was going to sue for defamation of character, but then I realised I have no character.
Charles Barkley, "they said it" in Sports Illustrated
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
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
A person without character is just as body without soul.
Ranjan
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.
Herbert Mitgang
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Thomas Jefferson
Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Ka
Character is what you are when no one is looking.
Unknown
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
Horace Mann
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
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.
Donald Creighton
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell
Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.
Patrick Overton
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
Franklin P. Adams
Character is what can do without success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude