Quotes
Quotes about Character
Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.
The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well and harmoniously developed body, tense muscles, an elastic and finely toned skin, bright eyes, grace and animation of carriage- all these things which are essential to beauty are the conditions of health.
It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
Blaming "society" makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Playing snooker gives you firm hands and helps to build up character. It is the ideal recreation for dedicated nuns.
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a garb of mercy.
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it
