Character Quotes

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menande

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character - Building value of privation for the poor.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Character is what you are when no one is looking.

Unknown

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Heywood

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

W. Somerset Maugham

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Freeman John Dyson

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

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

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

Jennifer Jones

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann von Goethe

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

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

Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality.

William R Allen

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Stendhal

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

James Albert Michene

Character is what you are in the dark.

American Prove

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Phillips Brooks

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

Aristophanes

One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.

Marie Stendhal

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Thomas Jefferson

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

Antiphanes

I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Character is power.

Booker T. Washington

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

Japanese Prove

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

Sir John Gielgud