Character Quotes

James albert michene - character consists of what you do on the third...
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
A rich man has no need of character.
Hebrew Prove
You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.
Malcolm Forbes
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
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Heywood - sports do not build character. they reveal it....
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 is what you are when no one is looking.
Unknown
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
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
Menande - the character of a man is known from his...
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
Sir James Glove
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.
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
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 influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.
Macleod
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
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
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
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.
Elias Boudinot
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.
Rose Dorothy Freeman
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant
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
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our character... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
George Santayana, "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis".
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
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.
Sir John Gielgud
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes
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
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
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.
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Saskya Pandita