Character Quotes

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
John stuart mill - solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is...
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character - Building value of privation for the poor.
John Kenneth Galbraith
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pride sullies the noblest character.
Claudianus
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. Somerset Maugham
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".
Jean paul friedrich richte - in later life, as in earlier, only a few persons...
Thomas jefferson - it is part of the american character to consider...
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
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
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".
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
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
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
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
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides
Character is what you are in the dark.
American Prove
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel Johnson
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.
Rose Dorothy Freeman
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
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
Anonymous
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.
John Keats
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
Anon.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
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 can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca, Epistles