Character Quotes
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
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.Henry David Thoreau
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
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.Lord John Whorfin
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
It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.Dr. Dale E. Turne
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.Michael Caine, www. aint - It - Cool - News. com
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.Rose Dorothy Freeman
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
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 develops itself in the stream of life.Johann von Goethe
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
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
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.Orison Swett Marden
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.Franklin P. Adams
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.James Bridie
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
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.Seneca, Epistles
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
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 rich man has no need of character.Hebrew Prove
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johann von Goethe
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
Character is who you are when no one is looking.Allan Williams
Character is what you are in the dark.American Prove
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
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 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
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.Henry David Thoreau
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - To surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.Thomas Jefferson
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
Character is what you are when no one is looking.Unknown
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.Henry Clay
