Human Character Quotes
45 quotes by 43 authors
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Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life…
— William Alcott
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Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.
— Brian Tracy
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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
— George Bernard Shaw
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To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.
— Alexander Hamilton
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We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read not a few…
— Arthur B. Robinson
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The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
— Mercy Otis Warren
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The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.
— Douglas Bader
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Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our…
— John Quincy Adams
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It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that…
— Howard Barker
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WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE…
— Douglas MacArthur
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There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked…
— Silvia Cartwright
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We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The measure of human character is our reaction to dark times. No one can sidestep darkness. It is the throne upon which light sits. If…
— David Wolpe
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To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years.…
— Jean Giono
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Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it…
— Neil Armstrong
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An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful,…
— Timothy Foote
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In the current era, more than prodigies in mathematics, science, athletics, or art, I believe we need prodigies of good character and integrity. People who…
— Ilchi Lee
Who Wrote These Human Character Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 45 Human Character Quotes, led by these top contributors: