Character Quotes

9624 Character quotes by 4950 unique authors

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows… — Henry Ward Beecher
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. — Max Lerner
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. — W. Somerset Maugham
It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where… — Samuel Johnson
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration… — Napoleon Bonaparte
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written. — Samuel Johnson
The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin,… — P.J. O'Rourke
It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. — George Matthew Adams
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with… — Ronald Reagan
The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this Nation, and… — Ronald Reagan
Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him. — Walter Lippmann
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have… — John Ashcroft
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our… — Thomas Browne
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To follow Christ is to become more like Him. It is to learn from His character. As spirit children of our Heavenly Father, we do… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it… — George Amos Dorsey
A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character. — Herbert Spencer
This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character. — William Westmoreland

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