Character Quotes

We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vi...

Good but not religious-good.

Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would ...

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all...

If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard ...

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more ...

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by ...

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those ac...

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could...

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish...

The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete over...

What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use...

I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to pre...

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I c...

I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to ...

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasu...

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering f...

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I h...

And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that...

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

There is a perfect rout of characters in every man—and every man is like an actor’s trunk, full of s...

It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals ...

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is a...

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.

One's character is set at an early age, son. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest o...

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most peopl...

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of you...

We are dealing, then, with an absurdity that is not a quirk or an accident, but is fundamental to ou...

The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary ...

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.

Cavenaugh rubbed his hands together and smiled his sunny smile.'I like that idea. It's reassuring. I...

From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosoph...

Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-fac...

The great hope of society is in individual character.

The great hope of society is individual character.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

The great hope of society is individual character.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

The great hope of society is individual character.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

The great hope of society is individual character.

Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor," said I, but quietly as the occasion demanded, "that one gentleman ...

Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time...

...The happy Warrior... is he... who, doomed to go in company with pain, and fear, and bloodshed, mi...

...The happy Warrior... is he... whose powers shed round him in the common strife, or mild concerns ...

...The happy Warrior... is he... who, with a natural instinct to discern what knowledge can perform,...

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.

I'm not the heroic type really. I was beaten up by Quakers.

One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated ef...

All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the inf...

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loya...

I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that...

My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf...

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the re...

You tell me that you sometimes view the dark side of your Diana, and there no doubt you discover man...

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles wi...

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

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree i...

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as a...

There is no such thing as a plain fact of murder. Murder springs, nine times out of ten, out of the ...

It seems odd that as far as I know nobody has yet been murdered for having too perfect a character! ...

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to bala...

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is charac...

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion ...

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad mem...

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...

I felt that the metal of my spirit, like a bar of iron that is softened and bent by a persistent fla...

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart. E...

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the ...

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in...

In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Success needs vision to see, passion to transcend, patience to withstand and the character to overco...

The tower of success stands on the pillars of vision, action, patience and the character to withstan...

...you have to believe in its principles. Anything is possible, as long as it's for the good of the ...

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge tha...

I am a deeply superficial person.

A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After ye...

He lost the great big outward thing, the good- looking package, and the real parts endured. They shi...

I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I...

Thought creates character.

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrai...

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make u...

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.