Character Quotes
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.Marquis de Sade
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B. C.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.Samuel Johnson
Character is what you are when no one is looking.Unknown
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
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 who you are when no one is looking.Allan Williams
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.Henry David Thoreau
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
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.
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
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.D. L. Moody
Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.Thomas Jefferson
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
A person without character is just as body without soul.Ranjan
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
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
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.Isabelle Eberhardt
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.Jean Nathan Mille
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
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 can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.Norman Douglas
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.Antiphanes
During my eighty - Seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.Bernard Mannes Baruch
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.Eleanor H. Porte
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.Freeman John Dyson
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.Theodore Roosevelt
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.Stendhal
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.Mahatma Gandhi
A rich man has no need of character.Hebrew Prove
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.Hermann Hesse
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
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
