Character Quotes - page 3

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air. (Mary McCarthy)
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
J. L. Austin
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Jean de La Bruyère
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
Henry Clay
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Booker T. Washington
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Leon Trotsky
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
Arthur Schopenhauer
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.
James Russell Lowell
Character is what you do in the dark.
Dwight L. Moody
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Max Beerbohm
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
Edward Young
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A character is a completely fashioned will.
Novalis
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.
Franz Boas
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Horatio Nelson
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
Eleanor Roosevelt