Character Quotes

Arnold toynbee - civilizations in decline are consistently...
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann von Goethe
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.
Richard Harris
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
John Wooden
W. somerset maugham - to bear failure with courage is the best proof of...
Rose dorothy freeman - character is not made in a crisis it is only...
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Prove
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
Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.
R. C. Samsel
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Johann von Goethe
Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Faith Baldwin
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
Woodrow Wilson
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks
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
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
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
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
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
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
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
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.
Donald Creighton
The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.
Macleod
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell
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".
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt
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
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
Horace Mann
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.
Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)
Freedom and indedendence form my character.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24. 04. 1921
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
Sir James Glove
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
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character - Building value of privation for the poor.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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