Character Quotes

Paint the essential character of things.

Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is no...

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or...

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lo...

During the whole time consumed in the slow growth of this family tree, the house of Smallweed, alway...

It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the ...

Bradley Headstone, in his decent black coat and waistcoat, and decent white shirt, and decent formal...

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous...

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its char...

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips...

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I h...

Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite feeling. Pardon the seeming ...

And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience...

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyon...

We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually do...

He is a man who kicks at cats, said Solembum, as if that summed up Tenga’s entire character.

I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference.

As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my mil...

You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, espe...

As I travel the world, it seems that younger people identify me merely with some of the folklore in ...

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease.

We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no se...

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and char...

Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character i...

I hope that in victory we are more grateful than proud.

This cultural, technological, and meritocratic environment hasn't made us a race of depraved barbari...

What a wise person teaches is the smallest part of what they give. The totality of their life, of th...

You can’t build rich lives simply by reading sermons or following abstract rules. Example is the bes...

I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta

Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College stu...

there was perhaps a strain of humility that was more common then than now, that there was a moral ec...

Nearly every parent on earth operates on the assumption that character matters a lot to the life out...

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it i...

Moderation is based on the idea that things do not fit neatly together. Politics is likely to be a c...

The inner struggle against one’s own weaknesses is the central drama of life.

People with character are capable of long obedience in the same direction, of staying attached to pe...

A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily ...

The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glo...

Unlike other enduring characters such as 'Sherlock Holmes' or 'Tarzan,' being the 'Doctor' allows yo...

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowi...

The thing with movies is, because you have so little time, I always feel like there are more things ...

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves...

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone's life when character is fixed forever.

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his t...

Mickey Rourke's character in 'The Wrestler' - that was my dad, that was my uncles, that was so many ...

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving y...

Character is what a man is in the dark.

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it...

Character is what a man is in the dark

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a d...

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. ...

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen,...

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Affliction is a good man's shining time.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is...

I believe that this suffering, which Miss Hale says is impressed on the countenances of the people o...

The traditions of . . . bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understa...

A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of ...

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by rev...

Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is...

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods a...

Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision....

It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsa...

It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily beco...

It seems likely to me now that the very element in my character that took possession of me there on ...

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

If Ford Madox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into...

Character is plot, plot is character.

I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking! Ought to be shoved back in the oven...

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about...

Isabelle and Amory were distinctly not innocent, nor were they particularly brazen. Moreover, amateu...

Amory had rather a Puritan conscience. Not that he yielded to it--later in life he almost completely...

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

…Mrs. Warren allowed her book to fall closed upon her lap, and her attractive face awakened to an ex...

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by li...

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character wi...

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as ...

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament th...

The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters.

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a ...

Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was r...

Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.