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character Quotes
- A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ...
- A rich man has no need of character. ...
- A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. ...
- A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not...
- Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. ...
- Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form...
- Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans...
- Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your...
- Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought...
- Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land....
- Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs....
- Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. ...
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be...
- Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. ...
- Character develops itself in the stream of life. ...
- Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. ...
- Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only...
- Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. ...
- Character is much easier kept than recovered. ...
- Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited. ...
- Character is power. ...
- Character is what can do without success. ...
- Character is what you are in the dark. ...
- Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by...
- Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. ...
- Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart....
- Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth...
- Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward. ...
- During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done...
- Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking....
- Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political...
- Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some...
- History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark. ...
- History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. ...
- I have a dream that my 4 children will one day live in a nation Where they will not...
- If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. (Proposal to reform...
- In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass...
- It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. ...
- It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ...
- It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution...
- It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest...
- It is really the undergraduate who makes a university, gives it its lasting character, smell, feel, quality, tradition ......
- It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To...
- Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the...
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ...
- Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ...
- Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character....
- Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a...
- People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ...
- Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character; and...
- Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character...
- Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny. ...
- Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ...
- Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ...
- Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is...
- Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is...
- Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. ...
- Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. ...
- The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done...
- The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor. ...
- The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its...
- The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is...
- The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck...
- The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be...
- The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to...
- There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land...
- There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who...
- This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. ...
- Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes...
- Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his...
- To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. ...
- Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch...
- We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our...
- Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. ...
- When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. ...
- You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans. ...
- You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans. ...
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