Character Quotes
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - Putting together all their yesterdays - And averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - It is worse than a large family - He is the silent poor indeed.Henry David Thoreau
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
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
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.Antiphanes
Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.J. S. Habgood
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
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.Anonymous
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
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.Henry David Thoreau
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.Jennifer Jones
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.Elias Boudinot
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.Woodrow Wilson
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
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....Douglas Noel Adams
Education has for its object the formation of character.Herbert Spence
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.Pope Pius XI
Character is who you are when no one is looking.Allan Williams
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
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.I Ching
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.Kahlil Gibran
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.William Carleton
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.Henry David Thoreau
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.Seneca, Epistles
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.John Stuart Mill
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.Solon
Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.Faith Baldwin
Character is what can do without success.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character - Building value of privation for the poor.John Kenneth Galbraith
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.Sir John Gielgud
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.Arnold Toynbee
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
