Character Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Character
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~ Commitment in the face of conflict produces character. ~

~ 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

~ The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~

Erma Bombeck

~ Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination. ~

John Luther

~ Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. ~

Albert Einstein

~ To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. ~

Mark Twain

~ Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Many parents are finding out that a pat on the back helps develop character - if given often enough, early enough, and low enough ~

Unknown

~ It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. ~

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

~ Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war; for sure I am, if this country is preserved in tranquillity twenty years longer, it may bid defiance, in a just cause, to any power ~

George Washington

~ A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character ~

Otto Bauer

~ Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. ~

Unknown

~ Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. ~

John Wooden

~ Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. ~

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

~ What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. ~

Augustus William Hare

~ If a leader demonstrates competency, genuine concern for others, and admirable character, people will follow. ~

T. Richard Chase

~ Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men. ~

Bruce Barton

~ It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible ~

Mark Twain

~ In war, three quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter. ~

Napoleon Bonaparte

~ A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. ~

Cicero

~ Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. ~

Antiphanes

~ What then is personal identity? It is the persistence of certain defining characteristics in a very complex orderly society endowed with a preeminent linear society or "soul" ~

Professor Hartshorne

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

Tryon Edwards

~ 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

~ When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. ~

German Motto

~ No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character. ~

John Sutherland Bodell

~ The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. ~

Justice Felix Frankfurter

~ It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear. ~

Wilhelm von Humboldt

~ I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception. ~

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