Character Quotes

9624 Character quotes by 4950 unique authors

Habits change into character. — Unknown Author
We are put in situations to build our character... not destroy us. — Nick Vujicic
The victories of character are instant, and victories for all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. — Ambrose Bierce
I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their… — Alison Sweeney
When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych… — Lois Lowry
Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it;… — Samuel Smiles
The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty… — James Hillman
You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus. — Cybill Shepherd
It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost… — Edith Wharton
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or… — Helen Gahagan Douglas
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a… — Mary McCarthy
You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last.… — James Garner
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word. — Lord Acton
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. — William Hazlitt
Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it. — Henry Ward Beecher
A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have… — William Ralph Inge
What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances. — George Bernard Shaw
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. — Plutarch
Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift… — Friedrich Nietzsche
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he… — Maria Montessori
For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many… — Joseph Addison
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter. — Alfred North Whitehead

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