Character Quotes
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.Marsha Evans
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.David Seabury
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.Alphonse Ka
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
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Kelle
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.John Wooden
Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.Faith Baldwin
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.D. L. Moody
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Kelle
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.Franklin P. Adams
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.Marie Stendhal
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.Woodrow Wilson
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.Albert Einstein
The discipline of desire is the background of character.John Locke
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
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
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.Antiphanes
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.Theodore Roosevelt
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - From lack of character.Dag Hammarskjld
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.Rose Dorothy Freeman
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
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.Henry Clay
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, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johann von Goethe
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.Stendhal
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.Henry David Thoreau
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.Aristophanes
