Quotes
Quotes about Character
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart. -Henry Clay (1777-1852).
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race; Give ample room and verge enough The characters of Hell to trace.
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.
The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler.
History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.
Don't worry so much about your self- esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the "market" in which the "workers" find "jobs," and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.
Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.
The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. -Albert Schweitzer.
Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower of present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. [It., Italia, Italia, O tu cui feo la sorte, Dono infelice di bellezza, ond' hai Funesta dote d'infiniti guai Che in fronte scritti per gran doglia porte.]
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
