Character Quotes
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Character is what we are when we are alone and in the dark. (Quote by - M.K. Soni)
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. (Quote by - Stephen Covey)
All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. (Quote by - Aesop)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
A man's character is his guardian divinity. (Quote by - Heraclitus)
Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. (Quote by - Jonathan Edwards)
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. (Quote by - Heraclitus)
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. (Quote by - Hermann Hesse)
It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action. (Quote by - Samuel Smiles)
There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, ;or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. (Quote by - George Matthew Adams)
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. (Quote by - Robert E. Lee)
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. (Quote by - Ovid)
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. (Quote by - Thomas B. Macaulay)
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. (Quote by - Flannery O'Connor)
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. (Quote by - George W. Bush )
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself. (Quote by - Lois McMaster Bujold)
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. (Quote by - Cesar Chavez)
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. (Quote by - Euripides)
I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind. (Quote by - Richard Greenberg)
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt )
The great hope of society is individual character. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)
Sow a thought, reap an act; Sow an act, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap adestiny. (Quote by - Anon xxxx)
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. (Quote by - James D. Miles)
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character. (Quote by - Marie Henri Beyle)
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character. (Quote by - George Santayana)
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he's born. (Quote by - William R. Inge)
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. (Quote by - Dwight Eisenhower)
Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms. (Quote by - James Beattie)
I do not like assassins, or men of low character. (Quote by - Gene Hackman)
Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and ;Independence. (Quote by - Edward Rickenbacker)
Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them. (Quote by - Xun Zi)
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him. (Quote by - William Carleton)
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. (Quote by - Confucius)
I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. (Quote by - Meryl Streep)
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright )
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. (Quote by - Francis Bacon )
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character. (Quote by - Arnold Palmer)
Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza)
I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand (Quote by - Upton Sinclair)
The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character. (Quote by - Nora Roberts)
No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it. (Quote by - John Lennon)
I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else. (Quote by - Rowan Atkinson)
Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. (Quote by - Alphonse Karr)
The character of a man is known from his conversations. (Quote by - Menander)
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination. (Quote by - John Luther)
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids. (Quote by - Aristotle)
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. (Quote by - Mikhail Bakunin)
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. (Quote by - Anne Frank)
Your father used to come home to my mother, and why may not I be a chippe of the same block out of which you two were cutte? (Quote by - A.H. Bullen)
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. (Quote by - Norman Schwarzkopf)
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Never allow the integrity of your own way of seeing things and saying things to be swamped by the influence of amaster, however great. (Quote by - George P. Lathrop)
An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. (Quote by - Robert Baden-Powell)
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. (Quote by - Oscar Levant)
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr)
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. (Quote by - Faith Baldwin)
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
To measure the man, measure his heart. (Quote by - Malcolm Stevenson Forbes)
Deeds, not words shall speak me. (Quote by - John Fletcher)
Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself. (Quote by - Jeanne Moreau)
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. (Quote by - James Allen )
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller)
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The longest journey of any person is the journey inward. (Quote by - Dag Hammerskjvld)
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. (Quote by - Elihu Burritt)
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. (Quote by - Paul Bryant )
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else. (Quote by - Kevin Bacon)
I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord. (Quote by - Brigham Young )
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. (Quote by - Anne Frank )
He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Character, I am sure, lies in the genes. (Quote by - Taylor Caldwell)
No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. (Quote by - Henry Clay)
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. (Quote by - Aristotle)
A man of great common sense and good taste, - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
The person I like most is the one who points out my defects. (Quote by - Hazrat Umar-e-Farooq)
Character is more important than talent. (Quote by - Edwin Louis Cole)
We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is a confession of character. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Bluntness is a virtue. (Quote by - Allison Ling)
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. (Quote by - Mary Wollstonecraft )
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. (Quote by - Ken Keys)
Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him. (Quote by - Robert C. Savage)
Character is power. (Quote by - Booker T. Washington)
He liked to like people, therefore people liked him. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world ‘This was a man!' (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character. (Quote by - Tony Robbins)
Like the corn fields that yield before the ferocious winds, the believers endure trials with fortitude. The hypocrites like cypress trees stand arrogantly until they are knocked down. (Quote by - Al-Hujwiri)
Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us. (Quote by - Wilhelm von Humboldt)
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. (Quote by - Solon)
Characer is much easier kept than recovered. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
From a timid, shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could not longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles. (Quote by - Anna Dostoevsky)
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you. (Quote by - Jimmy Johnson)
Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone. (Quote by - John Quincy Adams)
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic. (Quote by - Spike Lee )
I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character. (Quote by - Dana Carvey)
A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply. (Quote by - Danielle Steel)
I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist. (Quote by - Giacomo Casanova)
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up. (Quote by - Nora Roberts)
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, ifone has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. (Quote by - William James)
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. (Quote by - Shaquille ONeal)
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out. (Quote by - Sandra Cisneros)
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The discipline of desire is the background of character. (Quote by - John Locke)
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood. (Quote by - Mary Mcleod Bethune )
With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth, His early dreams of good out-stripp'd the truth, And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild: They follow the beck of a baleful star, Their paths are dream-beguiled. (Quote by - Richard Eugene Burton)
When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character. (Quote by - E. Stanley Jones)
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence: I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence. (Quote by - Idries Shah)
A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you. (Quote by - Henri Matisse )
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. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. (Quote by - Paul Newman)
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway )
Character is much easier kept than recovered. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler. (Quote by - Samuel Morse)
It's motive alone that gives character to the actions of men. (Quote by - Jean De la Bruyere)
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. (Quote by - Peter De Vries )
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. (Quote by - John Wooden)
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. (Quote by - L. Estrange)
A man's character is his fate. (Quote by - Heraclitus)
In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not. (Quote by - Joaquin Miller)
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on "Friends" is. (Quote by - Jon Stewart)
No artist's work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character. (Quote by - Charlotte Saunders Cushman)
Public behavior is merely private character writ large. (Quote by - Stephen Covey)
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. (Quote by - Roger Babson)
I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. (Quote by - Gwen Stefani)
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. (Quote by - Nathaniel Emmons)
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life. (Quote by - Billie Jean King)
In everyone there is something precious, found in no-one else; so honour each man for what is hidden within him-- for what he alone has, and none of his fellows. (Quote by - Hasidic Saying)
There is no index of character so sure as the voice. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
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. (Quote by - George Washington)
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. (Quote by - Catherine Aird)
There are four types of people: Smart and lazy, Smart and full of energy, Stupid and lazy, Stupid and full of energy (Quote by - Leif Summerfield)
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. (Quote by - Marquis de Sade)
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? (Quote by - Henry James)
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable. (Quote by - Norman Rockwell)
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean. (Quote by - Rowan Atkinson )
How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character? (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices. (Quote by - P. B. Fitzwater)
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. (Quote by - Charles Barkley)
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. (Quote by - Seneca)
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation. (Quote by - Samuel Osgood)
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. (Quote by - John Locke )
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. (Quote by - Horace Walpole)
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones. (Quote by - Darrell Royal)
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud )
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. (Quote by - John Wooden)
Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got. (Quote by - Janis Joplin)
Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known. (Quote by - Owen Meredith)
I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character. (Quote by - Jon Stewart)
Conscience is a treacherous thing, and mine behaves badly whenever there is a serious danger of being found out. (Quote by - Margaret Lane)
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is. (Quote by - Randy Harrison)
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past. (Quote by - Jeanne Moreau)
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld )
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. (Quote by - Bernard Baruch)
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. (Quote by - James A. Froude)
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things. (Quote by - Christian Bale)
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. (Quote by - Og Mandino)
Moral courage and character go hand in hand .... a man of real character is consistently courageous, being imbued with a basic integrity and a firm sense of principle. (Quote by - Martha Boaz)
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control. (Quote by - Thomas A. Edison)
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. (Quote by - Abigail Van Buren)
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero )
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Character is long-standing habit. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. (Quote by - Ralph W. Sockman)
There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it ill behoves any of us To find fault with the rest of us. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot. (Quote by - William Shatner)
Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character to another. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of. (Quote by - William Shatner )
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. (Quote by - John Wooden)
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. (Quote by - Woodrow T. Wilson)
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. (Quote by - Charles Reade)
Generous people are rarely mentally ill people. (Quote by - Karl Menninger)
Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. (Quote by - Bruce Lee )
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage – only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet. (Quote by - Henrik Hertzberg)
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. (Quote by - Vernon Howard)
I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character. (Quote by - Dan Aykroyd)
You must look into people, as well as at them. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects. (Quote by - Ali ibn-Abi-Talib)
I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid. (Quote by - Will Smith)
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and selfcontrol to be understanding and forgiving. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character. (Quote by - Tupac Shakur)
Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person. (Quote by - Stevie Wonder)
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. (Quote by - Henry Clay)
A great unrecognized incapacity. (Quote by - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck)
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. (Quote by - Horatio Nelson)
But rules cannot substitute for character. (Quote by - Alan Greenspan)
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character. (Quote by - Arnold Schwarzenegger)
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. (Quote by - William James )
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass )
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. (Quote by - Jose Marti )
Character matters; leadership descends from character. (Quote by - Rush Limbaugh)
I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. (Quote by - Toni Morrison )
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character. (Quote by - Marie Leneru)
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. (Quote by - George Washington)
Who you are comes from within, but who you are about to become comes from many. (Quote by - Randal J. Gonnering)
Character is destiny. (Quote by - Heraclitus)
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. (Quote by - Cicero)
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood. (Quote by - Paul Newman)
We are what we seem to be. (Quote by - Willard Gaylin)
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
Character is the only secure foundation of the state. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man that you can paint the air. (Quote by - Vernon Howard)
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow. (Quote by - Elias Boudinot)
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. (Quote by - Charles Spurgeon)
Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (Quote by - Horace)
Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. (Quote by - Francis Thompson)
The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message. (Quote by - Christian Bale)
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop. (Quote by - Tacitus)
You can't build a reputation on what you're GOING to do. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far. (Quote by - Louis Farrakhan)
I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it. (Quote by - Bette Davis)
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. (Quote by - Confucius)
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. (Quote by - David Hume)
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character. (Quote by - Viince Gill)
And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. (Quote by - Bible)
Character is simply habit long continued. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. (Quote by - Mel Brooks)
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these help instead of hinder, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. (Quote by - James Buckham)
What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. (Quote by - Goethe)
Character develops itself in the stream of life. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. (Quote by - James Dean)
It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life. (Quote by - Emmet Fox)
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. (Quote by - John Milton)
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. (Quote by - Arthur Miller)
It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character. (Quote by - Alan Alda)
For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends. (Quote by - Meryl Streep)
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children. (Quote by - Billy Graham)
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. (Quote by - Sam Ewing)
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character. (Quote by - Aaliyah)
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. (Quote by - Goethe)
There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character. (Quote by - Dennis Rodman )
They love, they hate, but cannot do without him. (Quote by - Aristophanes)
Knight without fear and without reproach. (Quote by - Richard Harris Barham)
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me. (Quote by - Paula Abdul)
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for. (Quote by - Robert Quillen)
I'm not the heroic type, really. I was beaten up by Quakers. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. (Quote by - E. Stanley Jones)
Are you a bromide? (Quote by - Frank Gelett Burgess)
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited. (Quote by - Robert Freeman)
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. (Quote by - Epictetus)
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Politics ruins the character. (Quote by - Otto von Bismarck)
Character is what a man is in the dark. (Quote by - Dwight L. Moody)
I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie. (Quote by - Quentin Tarantino)
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. (Quote by - Dean Koontz)
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. (Quote by - Lin Yutang)
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. (Quote by - John Wooden)
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)
Shamelessness is a wonderful part of the character. (Quote by - Stephen Colbert)
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. (Quote by - Alfred Lord Tennyson)
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. (Quote by - Oswald Chambers)
O Douglas, O Douglas! Tender and true. (Quote by - Sir Richard Holland)
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs. (Quote by - Joan Didion)
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me. (Quote by - Dwight L. Moody)
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes)
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
She was and is (what can there more be said?) On earth the first, in heaven the second maid. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt )
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. (Quote by - John Holt)
Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power. (Quote by - Shri Sathya Sai Baba)
It's good to shut up sometimes. (Quote by - Marcel Marceau)
Education has for its object the formation of character. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
To exercise good character daily is to be morally fit for life. (Quote by - Karen Hartz)
If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try. (Quote by - Meryl Streep)
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. (Quote by - Alphonse Karr)
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. (Quote by - George W. Bush)
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
The force of character is cumulative. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person. (Quote by - Charles Babbage )
It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post. (Quote by - Cicero)
Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage; Noble by heritage, Generous and free. (Quote by - Henry Carey)
I think you need people of principle, of character, that are leaders, that take stands on important tough issues that will affect the future of this country. (Quote by - Sean Hannity)
Character, not circumstance, makes the person. (Quote by - Booker T. Washington)
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character (Quote by - T. Alan Armstrong)
I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts. (Quote by - Christopher Walken)
Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay. When it comes to character, you don't have to be sick to get better. It's easier for a good person to get better than for a bad person to get good. (Quote by - Michael Josephson)
Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes)
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character! (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
The highest qualities of character... must be earned. (Quote by - Lyman Abbott)
At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me. (Quote by - Larry David )
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. (Quote by - James A. Michener)
Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about. (Quote by - Jackie Collins)
Only the mediocre are always at their best! (Quote by - Johnathan Winters)
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character. (Quote by - Isabelle Eberhardt)
Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . . he had two distinct persons in him. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people. (Quote by - James Monroe)
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather or known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? (Quote by - Bible)
When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad. (Quote by - William Shatner)
Action is character. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. (Quote by - George Washington)
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. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Habits change into character. (Quote by - Ovid)
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. (Quote by - Oswald Chambers)
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. (Quote by - Aesop)
Human improvement is from within outward. (Quote by - James Froude)
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born. (Quote by - Charlie Chaplin)
I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character. (Quote by - Mike Myers )
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. (Quote by - J.C. Watts)
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. (Quote by - Billy Graham)
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. (Quote by - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character. (Quote by - Randy Harrison)
He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort. (Quote by - Ali ibn-Abi-Talib)
Character is that which can do without success. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Dreams are the touchstones of our character. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. (Quote by - Elmer G. Letterman)
In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player! (Quote by - Eddie Murphy )
I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character. (Quote by - James Taylor)
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn )
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. (Quote by - John Adams)
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. (Quote by - Yugoslav Proverb)
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. (Quote by - G. C. Lichtenberg)
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.' (Quote by - Alfred Hitchcock)
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. (Quote by - Henry Drummond)
