Character Quotes & Sayings

~ Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. ~

~ The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. ~

~ I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. ~

Titus Maccius Plautus

~ Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men. ~

George Patton

~ It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing. ~

Eleanor Perény

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

Helen Adams Keller

~ It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life. ~

Margot Asquith

~ With respect to the two words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. If the words obtained so readily a place in the "Articles of Confederation," and received so little notice in their admission into the present Constitution, and retained for so long a time a silent place in both, the fairest explanation is, that the words, in the alternative of meaning nothing or meaning everything, had the former meaning taken for granted ~

James Madison

~ The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. ~

Wilhelm Reich

~ Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion ~

Dewey Henize

~ "After all, golf is only a game," said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is a kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying ~

P.G. Wodehouse,

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

Percey Boomer

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