Character Quotes

Dietrich bonhoeffe - it is the characteristic excellence of the strong...
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
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character - Building value of privation for the poor.
John Kenneth Galbraith
William hazlitt, on the pleasure of hating - to display the greatest powers, unless they are...
Phillips brooks - character may be manifested in the great moments,...
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
Lord John Whorfin
I was going to sue for defamation of character, but then I realised I have no character.
Charles Barkley, "they said it" in Sports Illustrated
Freedom and indedendence form my character.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24. 04. 1921
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
John Howe
What makes a good follower The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
Warren Bennis
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.
John Ashcroft
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B. C.
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
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
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
John Wooden
Common - Sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
Henry Clay
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
One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.
Marie Stendhal
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Cicero
Character cannot 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
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
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
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones
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
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.
Anon.
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
Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.
Unknown
Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.
J. S. Habgood
Character is who you are when no one is looking.
Allan Williams
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
Franklin P. Adams
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
Woodrow Wilson
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.
Donald Creighton
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891