Character Quotes
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.Euripides
The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.The Buddha
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
One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.Marie Stendhal
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
Character is what can do without success.Ralph Waldo Emerson
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.Donald Creighton
Character can not 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
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
Character is what you are in the dark.American Prove
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
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
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
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Chesterfield
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - Putting together all their yesterdays - And averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - It is worse than a large family - He is the silent poor indeed.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
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.Johann von Goethe
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.Theodore Roosevelt
Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.Sir Ronald A. Fishe
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
Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality.William R Allen
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.Japanese Prove
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johann von Goethe
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.Rose Dorothy Freeman
Character is what you are when no one is looking.Unknown
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.Sir John Gielgud
Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man.Saskya Pandita
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.Paxton Hood
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.Richard Harris
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.Stendhal
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
Character is much easier kept than recovered.Thomas Paine
