Character Quotes

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

John Howe

One can acquire everything in solitude - Except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann von Goethe

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

Sir John Gielgud

Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.

Rose Dorothy Freeman

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

William Golding

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

Isabelle Eberhardt

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Claiborne Pell

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876

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

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

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spence

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Henry Clay

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.

Lord John Whorfin

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Aristophanes

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Philip Dormer Chesterfield

You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.

Malcolm Forbes

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

James Bridie

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Henry David Thoreau

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".

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Author Unknown

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe