Character Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Character
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~ You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. ~

Victoria Abril

~ We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ I always think of the word `abandonment` when I think of the character. ~

Tilda Swinton

~ The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~

Peter De Vries

~ Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. ~

James Russell Lowell

~ Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established ~

Confucius

~ I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws. ~

Marcia Gay Harden

~ Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. ~

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

~ Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character. ~

John F. Boyes

~ Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness. ~

Yousuf Karsh

~ I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic. ~

Emma Bonino

~ 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. ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it. ~

Steven V. Thulon

~ Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil. ~

Daniel Yergin

~ It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize. ~

Stephen Covey

~ You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. ~

William Boetcker

~ With respect to the 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 ~

James Madison

~ The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know what it is to experience life on undeveloped, unoccupied land in the same form and character as the Creator fashioned it... It is a great spiritual experience. I never knew a man who took a bedroll into an Idaho mountainside and slept there under a star-studded summer sky who felt self-important that next morning. Unless we preserve some opportunity for future generations to have the same experience, we shall have dishonored our trust ~

Frank Church†

~ Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up, as did men of another age, to the challenge of nature. Modern man lives in a highly synthetic kind of existence. He specializes in this and that. Rarely does he test all his powers or find himself whole. But in the hills and on the water the character of a man comes out. ~

Abram T. Collier

~ It is not long since man thought of himself as the center of the universe, thought even of the Sun - the very source of all our life - as a light by day revolving about the Earth. As our new understanding has come - through science - science also has brought us many other new and wonderful discoveries, and the new knowledge of what we are has been overlooked by many of us in our eagerness for the new knowledge of what we can do. We have become as proud over what we can do as ever our ancestors could have been over themselves as the center of the universe. We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one of the spiritual benefits of a wilderness experience. Without the gagets, the inventions, the contrivances whereby men have seemed to establish among themselves an independence of nature, without these distractions, to know the wilderness is to know a profound humility, to recognize oneís littleness, to sense dependence and interdependence, indebtedness, and responsibility. Perhaps, indeed, this is the distinctive ministration of wilderness to modern man, the characteristic effect of an area which we most deeply need to provide for in our preservation programs. ~

Howard Zahniser

~ I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again. ~

Mary A. Ward

~ Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed. We need wilderness preserved - as much of it as still left, and as many kinds - because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed. The reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for our spiritual health. It is important to us when we are old simply because it is there - important, that is, simply as an idea. ~

Wallace Stegner

~ A character is a perfectly cultivated will ~

Novalis pseudonym

~ Will is character in action. ~

William Mcdougall

~ 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

~ Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character. ~

Tony Robbins

~ IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If man's notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from, and nowise dependent on, their consequences --then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. ~

Stephen Vizinczey

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