Character Quotes
Character is what you are in the dark.American Prove
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".
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
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.John Ballantine Gough
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
Character is what can do without success.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.Franklin P. Adams
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
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
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
Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.Faith Baldwin
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.Solon
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
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A person without character is just as body without soul.Ranjan
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.Woodrow Wilson
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.Theodore Roosevelt
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.Phillips Brooks
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.Henry David Thoreau
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.Tryon Edwards
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.Malcolm Forbes
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
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
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
