Character Quotes
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.Thomas Jefferson
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.Henry Ford
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.Isabelle Eberhardt
Character is power.Booker T. Washington
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One.Richard M. Devos
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.Pope Pius XI
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.Freeman John Dyson
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.Stendhal
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.Samuel Johnson
The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.Macleod
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johann von Goethe
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What made the deepest impression upon you? inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders? - - - - The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls, Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, was where in the world did all that water come from?Author Unknown
Pride sullies the noblest character.Claudianus
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.James Albert Michene
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....Douglas Noel Adams
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
One can acquire everything in solitude - Except character.Marie Henri Beyle
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
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.The Buddha
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
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.Henry David Thoreau
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.Anonymous
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.John Keats
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.Unknown
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.Seneca, Epistles
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.Henry Clay
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.Antonin Scalia
Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.J. S. Habgood
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
