Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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.
Excessive desires characterize children, no men.
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
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.”
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
A man's character is his fate.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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.
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
Bad company corrupts good 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 principles which direct them.
Habits change into character.
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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.
Character is simply habit long continued.”
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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.
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.