Character Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Character
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~ Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions. ~

John Edward Redmond

~ It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. ~

Marcus Tullius Cicero

~ 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

~ Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. ~

Janet Malcolm

~ One need not argue a full-blooded materialist position to say that it is capitalism that has given the general character to modern liberal societies. It is capitalist institutions and values--private property, profit-seeking, individualism, consumerism--that color the attitudes and beliefs of the majority of the populations of modern societies. ~

Krishan Kumar

~ All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. ~

Walt Disney

~ Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood is ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence ... What are the fruits of silence? They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character. ~

Ohiyesa

~ I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity. ~

ARTHUR MILLER

~ Someone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost, the government will fall. In a monarchy, it is affection and respect for the royal family. If that is lost the monarch is lost. In a dictatorship, it is fear. If the people stop fearing the dictator he'll lose power. In a representative government such as ours, it is virtue. If virtue goes, the government fails. Are we choosing paths that are politically expedient and morally questionable? Are we in truth losing our virtue? . . . If so, we may be nearer the dustbin of history than we realize. ~

Ronald Reagan

~ 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, and the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages. ~

John Keats

~ Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. ~

Carlo Goldoni

~ Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. ~

Louis Mumford

~ I think that when you look at the great politicians, the two greatest in my view were George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, they certainly had character traits. You also know Abraham Lincoln overcame severe depression problems that he had when he was younger, which gave him the strength and the character later on. ~

John McCain

~ When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. ~

Ernest Hemingway

~ Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads onto actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny. ~

Tyron Edwards

~ Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. ~

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

~ Playing snooker gives you firm hands and helps to build up character. It is the ideal recreation for dedicated nuns. ~

Archbishop Luigi Barbarito

~ If you ever come to feel any doubt of my character or of my heartfelt devotion to you... the title of Father of My Country will give me no additional honor, but will be a reproach to you, either for your hasty action in conferring the appellation upon me, or for your inconsistency in changing your estimate of my character. ~

Tiberius Caesar

~ Trifles discover a character more than actions of importance. In regard to the former, a person is off his guard, and thinks it not material to use disguise. It is no imperfect hint toward the discovery of a man's character to say he looks as though you might be certain of finding a pin upon his sleeve. ~

William Shenstone

~ Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these. ~

John Burroughs

~ Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. ~

J. L. Austin

~ Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. ~

Unknown

~ Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities. ~

Aristotle

~ Moral courage and character go hand in hand .... a man of real character is consistently courageous, beingimbued with a basic integrity and a firm sense of principle. ~

Martha Boaz

~ It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. ~

Zig Ziglar

~ I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives...the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our nation. ~

Bill Clinton

~ The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts ~

Heywood C. Broun

~ We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny. ~

Unknown

~ 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 ~

George Matthew Adams

~ Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making ~

William James

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