Character Quotes
Sow an act... reap a habit Sow a habit... reap a character Sow a character... reap a destiny.George Dana Boardman
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
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
Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.John Stuart Mill
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
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
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
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.Henry David Thoreau
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.Michael Caine, www. aint - It - Cool - News. com
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.Solon
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.John Wooden
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.Samuel Johnson
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.Henry Clay
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.Seneca, Epistles
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the 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 lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...Samuel Smiles
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
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".
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Freedom and indedendence form my character.Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24. 04. 1921
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.Henry David Thoreau
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.Elmer G. Letterman
To be a book - Collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks".
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.Antiphanes
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.Aristophanes
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - From lack of character.Dag Hammarskjld
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
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
