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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle
When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Zig Ziglar
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
Theodore Roosevelt
When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.
Tupac Shakur
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Tony Robbins
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
George Washington
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Albert Einstein
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
Abraham Lincoln
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mohandas Gandhi
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas Jefferson
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou
You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Ronald Reagan
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
John Wooden
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn Rand
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Sigmund Freud
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
Action is character.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
Thomas A. Edison
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Jim Rohn
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
Mike Tyson
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
T. S. Eliot
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
T. S. Eliot
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
George W. Bush
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
George W. Bush
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas Paine
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'Rourke
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
Charlie Chaplin
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Charlie Chaplin
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
John Locke
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
John Locke
I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
Bette Davis
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Billy Graham
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Billy Graham
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Stephen Covey
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
Stephen Covey
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
Alexis de Tocqueville
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
William James
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
William James
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
William James
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Calvin Coolidge
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
Robert E. Lee
Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.
Morgan Freeman
I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
Morgan Freeman
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.
James Dean
