Character Quotes
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.Oscar Levant
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Kelle
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.Thomas Jefferson
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.Ricthe
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
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
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.Albert Einstein
Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.Frances E. Willard
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.Donald Creighton
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.Tyron Edwards
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.Woodrow Wilson
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.Freeman John Dyson
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
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
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.Japanese Prove
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
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.
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.Anon.
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.Kahlil Gibran
Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.J. S. Habgood
Character is what you are when no one is looking.Unknown
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.Jean Nathan Mille
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.Jennifer Jones
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.Theodore Roosevelt
Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.Faith Baldwin
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.Orison Swett Marden
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.David Seabury
The discipline of desire is the background of character.John Locke
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
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.Anonymous
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.Samuel Johnson
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
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johann von Goethe
The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.Macleod
