Character Quotes
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
Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.Sir Ronald A. Fishe
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
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character - Building value of privation for the poor.John Kenneth Galbraith
Our character... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.George Santayana, "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis".
Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
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
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.William Carleton
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.Antiphanes
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 take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.D. L. Moody
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".
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
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.Henry Clay
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
In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.Michael Monahan
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
Character is power.Booker T. Washington
Character is much easier kept than recovered.Thomas Paine
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.Hermann Hesse
Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.Unknown
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
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.Henry David Thoreau
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.Henry Clay
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935
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
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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
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)
One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.Marie Stendhal
