Character Quotes
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
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
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.Johann von Goethe
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.D. L. Moody
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.Benjamin Franklin
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.Solon
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.John Wooden
Pride sullies the noblest character.Claudianus
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.Franklin P. Adams
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.I Ching
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.Henry Clay
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.Euripides
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.John Ashcroft
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.Orison Swett Marden
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common - Sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.Henry Clay
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
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.Anne Besant
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.Arnold Toynbee
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
A rich man has no need of character.Hebrew Prove
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.Horace Mann
Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.Patrick Overton
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
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.Ricthe
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
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is what you are when no one is looking.Unknown
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
