Character Quotes
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.Elmer G. Letterman
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.Eleanor H. Porte
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
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.James Albert Michene
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.Ralph Waldo Emerson
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.Donald Creighton
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
Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.Sir Ronald A. Fishe
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.Abraham Lincoln
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.Charles Reade
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
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.Francis Thompson
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
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B. C.
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
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".
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
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.Orison Swett Marden
Freedom and indedendence form my character.Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24. 04. 1921
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
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.Anon.
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
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.Euripides
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
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 influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.Macleod
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.James Bridie
There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table - Land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next.Johathan Edwards
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.Herbert Mitgang
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.Richard Hofstadte
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
