Character Quotes
One can acquire everything in solitude - Except character.Marie Henri Beyle
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.Rose Dorothy Freeman
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.Anne Besant
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.Solon
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
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
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
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.James Bridie
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
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
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.Heywood
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.Euripides
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.John Wooden
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
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person without character is just as body without soul.Ranjan
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
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
Character is what you are in the dark.American Prove
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
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
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
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
Sow an act... reap a habit Sow a habit... reap a character Sow a character... reap a destiny.George Dana Boardman
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character develops itself in the stream of life.Johann von Goethe
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.Richard Harris
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
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
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.Stendhal
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.Francis Thompson
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
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
