Character Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Character
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~ Football doesn't build character, it reveals character! ~

Marv Levy

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

Paul \"Bear\" Bryant

~ There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward. ~

Jeremy Northam

~ Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope . ~

Bible

~ This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ~

Neil Gaiman

~ Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable. ~

Norman Rockwell

~ There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. ~

Elizabeth Moon

~ All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity. ~

James F. Cooper

~ It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered. ~

Christian Nevell Bovee

~ A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. ~

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

~ The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. ~

Alfred Jarry

~ My character was formed by mountaineering. Enduring rainy slopes and cold bivouacs to spend an hour at the top of the world shaped my ability to handle adversity. ~

Candice Carpenter

~ Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. ~

Sam Ewing

~ Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. ~

Ayn Rand

~ Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general. ~

Nobuo Uematsu

~ 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

James F. Cooper

~ 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 Perényi

~ Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. ~

Solon

~ The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. ~

Claudian

~ Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. ~

George Bancroft

~ You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. ~

Marquis De Vauvenargues

~ The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. ~

Quintilian

~ If we have violated any law, it was not done intentionally. We have injured no man's reputation, character, person, or property.We were meeting together to preserve ourselves, our wives, and our children from utter degradation and starvation. ~

George Loveless

~ There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivac. ~

Johann Kaspar Lavater

~ The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. ~

Plato

~ To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self. ~

William Wordsworth

~ If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not ~

A B Guthrie Jr

~ The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden. ~

John Podhoretz

~ Rather than being about excitement and lust, a soul mate relationship is characterized by such things as a shared life path, a sense of comfort and ease, and a genuine liking of each other. ~

Katherine Woodward Thomas

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