Character Quotes
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".
Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.Anne Besant
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.Charles Reade
Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.Unknown
Our character... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.George Santayana, "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis".
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.Isabelle Eberhardt
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.Rose Dorothy Freeman
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.John Wooden
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.Elmer G. Letterman
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
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.Japanese Prove
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
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
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character - Building value of privation for the poor.John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.Oscar Levant
Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.R. C. Samsel
In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.Henry Clay
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.Donald Creighton
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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
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
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.Herbert Mitgang
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - From lack of character.Dag Hammarskjld
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.Richard Harris
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.Franklin P. Adams
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
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.Henry David Thoreau
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
