Character Quotes & Sayings

~ 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

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