Character Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Character
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~ Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief ~

Henry Tuckerman

~ The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away. ~

Guy Finley

~ Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day... ~

Orison Swett Marden

~ The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders. ~

Herbert Hoover

~ Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying. We must never give up, regardless of temptations, frustrations, disappointments, or discouragements. ~

Joseph P. Wirthlin

~ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~

Helen Keller

~ A person's character is revealed by their speech ~

Greek proverb

~ Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. ~

E.V. Lucas

~ On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. ~

Dr. Samuel Johnson

~ 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

~ A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours ~

Ray Fitzgerald

~ Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. ~

Solon

~ If you wish to hide your character, do not play golf ~

Percey Boomer

~ We speak of eyeball-to-eyeball encounters between men great and small. Even more reaching and revealing of character is the eyeball-to-golfball confrontation, whereby our most secret natures are mercilessly tested by a small, round, whitish object with no mind or will but with a very definite life of its own, and with whims perverse and beatific ~

John Stewart Martin

~ She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. ~

Goldsmith, Oliver

~ On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest, imagine you are a person with a level 2 strength of character and attitude looking at a level 5 problem. Would this problem appear to be big or little? From a level 2 perspective, a level 5 problem would seem like a big problem ~

Unknown

~ Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity ~

Stephen R. Covey

~ Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of womanís sexuality. Every pregnant woman has body and self taken over by a chthonian force beyond her control. In the welcome pregnancy, this is a happy sacrifice. But in the unwanted one, initated by rape or misadventure, it is a horror. Such unfortunate women look directly into natureís heart of darkness. For a fetus is a benign tumor, a vampire who steals in order to live. The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way ~

Camille Paglia

~ Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. Every pregnant woman has body and self taken over by a chthonian force beyond her control. In the welcome pregnancy, this is a happy sacrifice. But in the unwanted one, initiated by rape or misadventure, it is a horror. Such unfortunate women look directly into nature's heart of Darkness. For a fetus is a benign tumor, a vampire who steals in order to live. The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way. ~

Camille Paglia

~ The real object of the drama is the exhibition of the human character. ~

Thomas Babington Macaulay

~ Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor will feel a pleasure in the reverse; and those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues are happy if others can be depressed to a level with themselves. ~

John Marshall Barker

~ The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. ~

Richard Hofstadter

~ The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior. ~

Earl Warren

~ The most vital test of a man's character is not how he behaves after success, but how he sustains defeat. ~

Raymond Moley

~ Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ~

Elbert Hubbard

~ Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for. ~

Robert Quillen

~ The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. ~

Albert Einstein

~ The character of a people may be ruined by charity. ~

Theodor Herzl

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