Character Quotes
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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
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".
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
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.Rose Dorothy Freeman
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
What makes a good follower The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.Warren Bennis
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
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.Woodrow Wilson
Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.Unknown
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.Samuel Johnson
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.Janet Jackson
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Character is power.Booker T. Washington
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
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - Putting together all their yesterdays - And averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - It is worse than a large family - He is the silent poor indeed.Henry David Thoreau
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
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
Pride sullies the noblest character.Claudianus
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
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.Phillips Brooks
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - From lack of character.Dag Hammarskjld
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.Anon.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.Henry David Thoreau
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".
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
Sow an act... reap a habit Sow a habit... reap a character Sow a character... reap a destiny.George Dana Boardman
Character is what can do without success.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.Arnold Toynbee
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
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
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
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 influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.Eleanor H. Porte
