Character Quotes & Sayings

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~ Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts ~

Marcus Aurelius

~ Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. ~

Fortune Cookie

~ Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. ~

Euripides

~ The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead. ~

Theodore Roosevelt

~ Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. ~

Thomas John Barnardo

~ To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. ~

Aristotle

~ There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial. ~

Sir Walter Scott

~ Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock. ~

Theodore Parker

~ When you heard that a mountain was moved, believe it; but when you hear that someone changed his character do not believe it. ~

Arabian Proverb

~ No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ~

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

~ Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely. ~

Lord Chesterfield

~ If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. ~

Charles Horton Cooley

~ It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character. ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it. ~

Napoleon Bonaparte

~ The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. ~

E.M. Cioran

~ Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul. ~

Thomas Moore

~ This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions. ~

Daniel Webster

~ 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

~ Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds. ~

Samuel Smiles

Johann Kaspar Lavater

~ Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. ~

Napoleon Hill

~ If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up? ~

Chuck Palahniuk

~ We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life. ~

Jacqueline Bisset

~ (Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth. ~

Jacques Ellul

~ Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny. ~

Henry Hancock

~ We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate. ~

Henri Bergson

~ Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. ~

James A Michener 1907

~ To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. ~

Katherine Hepburn

~ No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. ~

William James 1842

~ It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.î ~

Dale E. Turner

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