character quotes

• To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. (William Somerset Maugham) [courage/character/give]
• If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. (Andre Maurois) [habit/habit/character/character]
• 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) [character/reputation/shadow/shadow]
• It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character. (Arthur Schopenhauer) [character]
• Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. (Dale Carnegie) [fool/character/control/understanding]
• We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. (John Locke) [take/color/character]
• In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [character/literary style/excellence/]
• Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though 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) [life/character/help]
• Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. (Sarah Bernhardt) [character]
• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [people/opinion/character]
• Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. (Robert Burns) [character/wish]
• Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids. ( Aristotle) [character/class]
• 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) [character/virtue]
• Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so. (Wystan Auden) [character]
• The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world. (Henry Ward Beecher) [character]
• The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. (Walter Benjamin) [character/feeling/life/suicide]
• Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. (Jacqueline Bisset) [character/beauty/youth]
• Character is victory organized. ( Napoleon I) [character]
• 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 principals which direct them. ( Napoleon I) [pleasure/character/bad/acts]
• I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything. (James Boswell) [character]
• Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. (Robert Burns) [character/wish]
• No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself. (Thomas Carlyle) [character/property/men]
• God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing. (Joyce Cary) [god/character/being/god]
• The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. (Miguel De Cervantes) [character/fool]
• Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [character/willpower/willpower/willpower]
• Character must be kept bright as well as clean. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [character]
• Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [character/genius]
• 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 Cicero) [water/character]
• Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame. (Marcus Cicero) [character/shame]
• Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. (Henry Clay) [men/character]
• Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. (Henry Clay) [character/strike]

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