Character Quotes

Antonin scalia - bear in mind that brains and learning, like...
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James Albert Michene
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.
Anon.
Benjamin franklin - whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of...
Theodore roosevelt - a vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends...
Character is what can do without success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
Lord John Whorfin
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
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
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann von Goethe
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks
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
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)
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell
There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table - Land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next.
Johathan Edwards
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
Character is what you are when no one is looking.
Unknown
A person without character is just as body without soul.
Ranjan
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
Woodrow Wilson
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spence
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
You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.
Malcolm Forbes
Sow an act... reap a habit Sow a habit... reap a character Sow a character... reap a destiny.
George Dana Boardman
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.
Henry David Thoreau
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
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
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
James Bridie
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
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
Pride sullies the noblest character.
Claudianus
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
Richard Hofstadte