Character Quotes

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

Paul \"Bear\" Bryant

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm

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

James A Michener 1907

Never allow the integrity of your own way of seeing things and saying things to be swamped by the influence of amaster, however great.

George P. Lathrop

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

Katherine Hepburn

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Woodrow T. Wilson

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

James A. Michener

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

Moral courage and character go hand in hand .... a man of real character is consistently courageous, beingimbued with a basic integrity and a firm sense of principle.

Martha Boaz

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809

You can't build a reputation on what you're GOING to do.

Henry Ford 1863

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

Solon

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He had a curiously womanish face, and, in direct contradiction to his real character, there seemed to be little strength in it.

Isa Bowman

Costner's film captured the main character's motives, while removing 30 IQ points.

William M. Kucmierowski

I cannot emphasize enough that I do not start with a plan or agenda and mechanically manipulate characters and events to carry it out. I set characters in motion, and let them teach me what the book is.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing.

Martin Buber

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus

Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited ... and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficultto miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

Aristotle

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