Character Quotes
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.Anon.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character - Building value of privation for the poor.John Kenneth Galbraith
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.Euripides
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.Francis Thompson
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.Franklin P. Adams
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.
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
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johann von Goethe
The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.Macleod
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.Stendhal
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.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
You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.Malcolm Forbes
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
Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
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
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
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.Theodore Roosevelt
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.Richard Harris
Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.Alphonse Ka
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.Henry David Thoreau
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.Herbert Mitgang
Sow an act... reap a habit Sow a habit... reap a character Sow a character... reap a destiny.George Dana Boardman
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.Donald Creighton
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.Abraham Lincoln
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
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.Henry David Thoreau
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
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B. C.
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 man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.Anonymous
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
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.Pope Pius XI
