Character Quotes
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.Lord John Whorfin
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.Samuel Johnson
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
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
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality.William R Allen
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
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
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - The hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.John Locke
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.Freeman John Dyson
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
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.Anonymous
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.
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
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
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.Tyron Edwards
Character is what you are in the dark.American Prove
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.Thomas Jefferson
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.Seneca, Epistles
A person without character is just as body without soul.Ranjan
A rich man has no need of character.Hebrew Prove
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.Antonin Scalia
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.Henry David Thoreau
The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.The Buddha
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Chesterfield
Character is much easier kept than recovered.Thomas Paine
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.Johann von Goethe
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.Henry David Thoreau
Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.J. S. Habgood
