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QUOTES including the word: "character"

Henry Thoreau:
  • Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

    • Robert Burns:
  • 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.

    • Somerset Maugham:
  • Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

    • Napoleon:
  • 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.

    • Ovid:
  • Habits change into character.

    • Tennessee Williams:
  • I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

    • Quasimodo:
  • The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

    • Menander:
  • Bad company corrupts good character.

    • Octavio Paz:
  • When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

    • Nikolai Gogol:
  • There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.”

    • Democritus:
  • Excessive desires characterize children, no men.

    • Washington:
  • 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.

    • Plutarch:
  • Character is simply habit long continued.”

    • Heinrich Heine:
  • I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

    • Anne Frank:
  • The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

    • Hermann Hesse:
  • People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

    • Thomas Paine:
  • Character is much easier kept than recovered.

    • Heraclitus:
  • A man's character is his fate.

    • Goethe:
  • Character develops itself in the stream of life.

    • L. Martin King,:
  • 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.

    • Aristophanes:
  • Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

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