Quotes
Quotes about Character
A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherin he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. [Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.]
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. -Margaret Fuller.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.
Pity the man who has a character to supportâit is worse than a large familyâhe is silent poor indeed.
It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.
Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a garb of mercy.
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.
To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.
To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of dictatorship.
For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axisâan American decision that this is sport, or that it is business. - The American Character.
...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political rather than by economic means.
