Character Quotes

Norman douglas - you can construct the character of a man and his...
Pride sullies the noblest character.
Claudianus
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
A person without character is just as body without soul.
Ranjan
Benito mussolini, the political and social doctrine of fascism, 1935 - if every age has its own characteristic doctrine,...
James a. froude - you cannot dream yourself into a character you...
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
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
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
In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.
Michael Monahan
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
Lord John Whorfin
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.
Tryon Edwards
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
Henry David Thoreau
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spence
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.
Arnold Toynbee
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.
Henry David Thoreau
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One.
Richard M. Devos
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
Character is who you are when no one is looking.
Allan Williams
Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Ka
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 much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine
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 vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
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
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
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
John Howe
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Cicero
One can acquire everything in solitude - Except character.
Marie Henri Beyle
The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.
Macleod
To be a book - Collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks".
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
John Locke
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.
Antonin Scalia
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
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
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