Character Quotes
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.Stendhal
Character is much easier kept than recovered.Thomas Paine
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.Albert Einstein
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.Richard Harris
Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.Unknown
Character is what you are when no one is looking.Unknown
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.George Washington
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
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
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
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.Woodrow Wilson
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
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
There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table - Land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next.Johathan Edwards
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - From lack of character.Dag Hammarskjld
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.Donald Creighton
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
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.Henry David Thoreau
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.Lord John Whorfin
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.Benjamin Franklin
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.Horace Mann
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.Sir John Gielgud
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.David Seabury
The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.The Buddha
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
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.Heywood
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
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.Kahlil Gibran
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
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
