Character Quotes
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.Samuel Smiles
Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.Faith Baldwin
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Education has for its object the formation of character.Herbert Spence
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.Eleanor H. Porte
Freedom and indedendence form my character.Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24. 04. 1921
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Kelle
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.Henry David Thoreau
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B. C.
What made the deepest impression upon you? inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders? - - - - The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls, Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, was where in the world did all that water come from?Author Unknown
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.Henry Ford
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.Anon.
Sow an act... reap a habit Sow a habit... reap a character Sow a character... reap a destiny.George Dana Boardman
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.J. S. Habgood
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
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.Henry David Thoreau
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
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.Phillips Brooks
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
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.John Ballantine Gough
I was going to sue for defamation of character, but then I realised I have no character.Charles Barkley, "they said it" in Sports Illustrated
Common - Sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.Malcolm Forbes
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.John Wooden
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.Johann von Goethe
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.Oscar Levant
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.Isabelle Eberhardt
