Quotes on Character

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

A man's character is his fate.

It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."

Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.

Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.