Character Quotes

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.
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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".
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spence
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau
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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
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Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.
Marsha Evans
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Prove
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Cicero
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".
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
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
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes
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
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.
Sir John Gielgud
Character is who you are when no one is looking.
Allan Williams
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
Henry David Thoreau
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.
Henry David Thoreau
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
Antiphanes
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
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 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
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides
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
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson