Character Quotes
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.Solon
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.Jennifer Jones
You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.Malcolm Forbes
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A person without character is just as body without soul.Ranjan
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
Character is what you are when no one is looking.Unknown
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.Seneca, Epistles
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.George Washington
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
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
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
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
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.Albert Einstein
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.Phillips Brooks
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 farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.Isabelle Eberhardt
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
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.Rose Dorothy Freeman
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
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
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.Johann von Goethe
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.Henry David Thoreau
