Character Quotes

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

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Freeman John Dyson

Character is what can do without success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.

Frances E. Willard

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....

Douglas Noel Adams

Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.

Marsha Evans

One can acquire everything in solitude - Except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Norman Douglas

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

Antonin Scalia

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Orison Swett Marden

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann von Goethe

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

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

James Albert Michene

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

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

Japanese Prove

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

Antiphanes

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance

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

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Claiborne Pell

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

A person without character is just as body without soul.

Ranjan

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

John Locke

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

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)

It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.

Lin Yutang

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Henry Clay

Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

James Bridie