Character Quotes
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.Henry David Thoreau
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
In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.Michael Monahan
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.Albert Einstein
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
We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - The hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.John Locke
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
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
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
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.Antiphanes
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
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.Orison Swett Marden
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.D. L. Moody
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
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.Horace Mann
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.Mahatma Gandhi
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.Anonymous
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.Norman Douglas
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
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.Thomas Jefferson
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.John Ballantine Gough
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.Aristophanes
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
Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.Faith Baldwin
It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.Dr. Dale E. Turne
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is what you are in the dark.American Prove
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the 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 lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...Samuel Smiles
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
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
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
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
I was going to sue for defamation of character, but then I realised I have no character.Charles Barkley, "they said it" in Sports Illustrated
