Character Quotes

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
You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.
Malcolm Forbes
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal
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The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
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".
There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
Elmer G. Letterman
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones
Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.
R. C. Samsel
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Tyron Edwards
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
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
Franklin P. Adams
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
D. L. Moody
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B. C.
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
Woodrow Wilson
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spence
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menande
Character is what you are when no one is looking.
Unknown
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
William Golding
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.
Anon.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Author Unknown
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
Marquis de Sade