Character Quotes

The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a d...

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. ...

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen,...

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Affliction is a good man's shining time.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is...

I believe that this suffering, which Miss Hale says is impressed on the countenances of the people o...

The traditions of . . . bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understa...

A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of ...

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by rev...

Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is...

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods a...

Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision....

It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsa...

It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily beco...

It seems likely to me now that the very element in my character that took possession of me there on ...

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

If Ford Madox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into...

Character is plot, plot is character.

I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking! Ought to be shoved back in the oven...

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about...

Isabelle and Amory were distinctly not innocent, nor were they particularly brazen. Moreover, amateu...

Amory had rather a Puritan conscience. Not that he yielded to it--later in life he almost completely...

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

…Mrs. Warren allowed her book to fall closed upon her lap, and her attractive face awakened to an ex...

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by li...

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character wi...

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as ...

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament th...

The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters.

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a ...

Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was r...

Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent...

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

Storytelling is about two things it's about character and plot.

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend ...

Up until the time I was cast in 'Star Trek,' the roles were pretty shallow - thin, stereotyped, one-...

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compass...

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to...

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it,...

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contrib...

Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.

But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shif...

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.

I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to cons...

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it throug...

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a...

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I...

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a work...

It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage ...

people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from...

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can ...

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of characte...

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a...

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other s...

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard...

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

The truth is that circumstances had done much to cultivate in Mrs. Tristram a marked tendency to iro...

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng But in oursel...

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protr...

Character is destiny

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and wit...

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Fate and character are different names for the same idea.

Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress.Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work,...

One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I do...

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death i...

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to ...

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a ...

As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the ...

...[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abid...

...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal ...

Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.I mean, is...

Don't the great tales never end?""No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them ...

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

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

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in a...

The politeness which she had been brought up to practice as a duty made it impossible for her to esc...

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than m...

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be...

Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and...

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It...

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got al...

He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly an...

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.