Character Quotes
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.Macleod
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.Ricthe
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.Henry Clay
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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 discipline of desire is the background of character.John Locke
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.Francis Thompson
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, The Confucian Analects
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
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
Character is much easier kept than recovered.Thomas Paine
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
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".
Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.Alphonse Ka
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
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.Abraham Lincoln
Character develops itself in the stream of life.Johann von Goethe
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.Jennifer Jones
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.Sir John Gielgud
Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
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
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.Freeman John Dyson
Freedom and indedendence form my character.Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24. 04. 1921
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
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
One can acquire everything in solitude - Except character.Marie Henri Beyle
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.Seneca, Epistles
