Character Quotes
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.Oscar Levant
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.Solon
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.Japanese Prove
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
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
What made the deepest impression upon you? inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders? - - - - The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls, Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, was where in the world did all that water come from?Author Unknown
Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.Unknown
Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.Albert Einstein
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
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
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
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
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B. C.
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
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
We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - The hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.John Locke
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.Isabelle Eberhardt
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
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.Elmer G. Letterman
Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.Faith Baldwin
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.Stendhal
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.Phillips Brooks
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.Anonymous
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
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
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 conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character - Building value of privation for the poor.John Kenneth Galbraith
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
