Character Quotes

Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character.

Tomas Young

Stubbornness equals character roughly as lust equals love.

Nicolas Chamfort

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

Horace Bushnell

This character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection.

Thomas Chalmers

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

Thomas Carlyle

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

Joseph Campbell

A life devoted to trifles, not only takes away the inclination, but the capacity for higher pursuits. The truths of Christianity have scarcely more influence on a frivolous than on a profligate character.

Hannah More

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.

Dale E. Turner

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

I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness.

Tomas Young

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

Napoleon

Fellow citizens: The year ahead will demand more patience, sacrifice, and resolve. It can be tempting to think that America can put aside the burdens of freedom. Yet times of testing reveal the character of a nation. And throughout our history, Americans have always defied the pessimists and seen our faith in freedom redeemed. Now America is engaged in a new struggle that will set the course for a new century. We can, and we will, prevail.

George Walker Bush

Anyone who has no character is not a man, but a thing.

Nicolas Chamfort

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

Albert Camus

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

Arthur Schopenhauer
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