Character Quotes

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Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. — George Santayana
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken… — Robert Louis Stevenson
He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their… — Marcel Proust
There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold. — William Shakespeare
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once… — Elizabeth Taylor
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies. — William Hazlitt
The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of… — W. Somerset Maugham
Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may… — Bertrand Russell
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been… — Mary McCarthy
So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular… — Lord Chesterfield
Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs. — W. Somerset Maugham
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim… — W. Somerset Maugham
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. — Charles Spurgeon
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race.… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery… — Maria Montessori
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very… — Charles Caleb Colton
The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character. — Cesar Chavez
...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts,… — Cesar Chavez

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