Character Quotes
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Education has for its object the formation of character.Herbert Spence
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.Eleanor H. Porte
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
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
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
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
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
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.
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.Aristophanes
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.Lord John Whorfin
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - The hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.John Locke
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
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.Henry David Thoreau
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
One can acquire everything in solitude - Except character.Marie Henri Beyle
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.Woodrow Wilson
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.Rose Dorothy Freeman
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".
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.Marie Stendhal
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is power.Booker T. Washington
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
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.Johann von Goethe
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
