Character Quote by Erich Fromm

As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something…

— Sydney J. Harris

Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.

— Sydney J. Harris

“The whole personality is determined by the temperament and character together. Temperament influences the development of the character to a certain point, but it…

— Zoe McKey

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

— Honore de Balzac

“Character is nature and nurture. It is nature cultured and disciplined, so that natural tendencies are brought under the sway of the moral motive.…

— William Straton Bruce

Character is ethics in action.

— Michael Josephson

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

— Charles Francis Adams Jr

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world.

— Seamus Heaney

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally…

— John Burroughs

I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born...can be transformed…

— Hannah Hurnard

Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and their values.

— Mark Pellegrino