Character Quotes
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.James Bridie
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.Oscar Levant
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
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
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.Hermann Hesse
What made the deepest impression upon you? inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders? - - - - The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls, Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, was where in the world did all that water come from?Author Unknown
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.Woodrow Wilson
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.George Washington
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
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
The character of a man is known from his conversations.Menande
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.I Ching
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.Tryon Edwards
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
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.Jennifer Jones
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
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.Heywood
The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.Macleod
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
Character is who you are when no one is looking.Allan Williams
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
