Character Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Character
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~ One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends. ~

Jean Cocteau

~ Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. ~

Oswald Chambers

~ Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life ~

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

~ Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. ~

Paul Bryant

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

Samuel Butler

~ I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. ~

George Washington

~ Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board. ~

Price Pritchett

~ The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force ~

Voltaire

~ Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ~

John Wooden

~ Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. ~

John Wooden

~ True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. ~

Albert Einstein

~ True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. ~

Albert Einstein

~ The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force ~

Voltaire

~ Volunteering creates a national character in which the community and the nation take on a spirit of compassion, comradeship and confidence. ~

Brian O\'Connell

~ Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. ~

David Seabury

~ One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters. ~

Aldous Huxley

~ The discipline of desire is the background of character. ~

John Locke

~ The discipline of desire is the background of character. ~

John Locke

~ Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. ~

Loretta Young

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

Horace Greeley

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

Samuel Butler

~ 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 PerÈny

~ 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,

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