Character Quotes
Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality.William R Allen
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.John Wooden
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Chesterfield
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
Character is what you are when no one is looking.Unknown
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.Stendhal
Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.Unknown
Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.Marsha Evans
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.D. L. Moody
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...Samuel Smiles
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.Sir John Gielgud
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
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.Anon.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.Menande
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, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.Lord John Whorfin
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.Paxton Hood
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
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.Henry Clay
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
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.Aristophanes
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.Samuel Smiles
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.Johann von Goethe
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
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
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.Woodrow Wilson
Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.Frances E. Willard
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.Euripides
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.Anon.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.J. S. Habgood
