Character Quotes
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.Thomas Jefferson
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
Character is power.Booker T. Washington
Character develops itself in the stream of life.Johann von Goethe
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
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
A rich man has no need of character.Hebrew Prove
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.Henry Clay
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
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johann von Goethe
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.Pope Pius XI
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
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
One can acquire everything in solitude - Except character.Marie Henri Beyle
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.Horace Mann
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.Heywood
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
Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.John Stuart Mill
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.I Ching
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
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.Orison Swett Marden
A person without character is just as body without soul.Ranjan
Character is what you are in the dark.American Prove
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.Aristophanes
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, The Confucian Analects
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.Alexander Hamilton
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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
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
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
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.Phillips Brooks
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
