[ character Quotes ]

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
[ Character ]
P. B. Fitzwater

 

   
3 votes

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
[ Motivation ]
John W. Foster

 

   
5 votes

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
[ Character ]
Anne Frank

 

   
2 votes

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
[ Character ]
Felix Frankfurter

 

   
7 votes

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
[ Character ]
Robert Freeman

 

   
2 votes

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
[ Character ]
James A. Froude

 

   
3 votes

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
[ Wealth ]
John Kenneth Galbraith

 

   
6 votes

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
[ Procrastination ]
David Lloyd George

 

   
6 votes

Style is the image of character.
[ Style ]
Edward Gibbon

 

   
4 votes

Character develops itself in the stream of life.
[ Character ]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

   
7 votes

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
[ Character ]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

   
8 votes

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
[ Character ]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

   
5 votes

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
[ Character ]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

   
5 votes

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
[ Laughter ]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

   
2 votes

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
[ Talent ]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

   
5 votes

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
[ Character ]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

   
11 votes

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
[ Character ]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

   
4 votes

The history of mankind is his character.
[ History and Historians ]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

   
17 votes

Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.
[ Feminism ]
J. S. Habgood

 

   
8 votes

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
[ Character ]
Colin Hay

 

   
3 votes

A rich man has no need of character.
[ Character ]
Hebrew Proverb

 

   
29 votes

A man's character is his guardian divinity.
[ Character ]
Heraclitus

 

   
2 votes

Character is our destiny.
[ Character ]
Heraclitus

 

   
3 votes

Man's character is his fate.
[ Character ]
Heraclitus

 

   
1 votes

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
[ Character ]
Napoleon Hill

 

   
1 votes

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
[ Perseverance ]
Napoleon Hill

 

   
2 votes

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
[ Consistency ]
Horace

 

   
5 votes

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
[ Character ]
Horace

 

   
3 votes

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
[ Character ]
Elbert Hubbard

 

   
3 votes

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
[ Character ]
David Hume

 

   
6 votes

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
[ Curiosity ]
Samuel Johnson

 

   
3 votes

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
[ Slander ]
Samuel Johnson

 

   
1 votes

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
[ Character ]
Grenville Kleiser

 

   
4 votes

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
[ Moderation ]
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

 

   
5 votes

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
[ Character ]
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

 

   
6 votes

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
[ Character ]
Johann Kaspar Lavater

 

   
5 votes

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
[ Character ]
Oscar Levant

 

   
3 votes

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
[ Character ]
Georg C. Lichtenberg

 

   
4 votes

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
[ Freedom ]
Georg C. Lichtenberg

 

   
7 votes

Character matters; leadership descends from character.
[ Character ]
Rush Limbaugh

 

   
3 votes

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
[ Power ]
Abraham Lincoln

 

   
6 votes

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
[ Leaders and Leadership ]
Robert Lindner

 

   
5 votes

The discipline of desire is the background of character.
[ Desire ]
John Locke

 

   
2 votes

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
[ Love ]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow