Character Quotes - page 5

If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason. (Emil Cioran)
Character is the virtue of hard times. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
To find a man's true character, play golf with him. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. View quote
George Santayana
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. View quote
Charles Reade
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense. View quote
Fawn M. Brodie
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus. View quote
John Ashcroft
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior. (Earl Warren)
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Character is power. View quote
Booker T. Washington
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. View quote
Abigail Van Buren
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints. View quote
Will Durant
This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character. View quote
Herbert Hoover
I leave my character behind me. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Here is the whole set a character dead at every word. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune. View quote
Publilius Syrus
The kingdom is not an amorphous jumble of regions, but a closely organized state in which the character of one region is close to that of its neighbor. There are few sharp boundaries. Rather, the landscape is largely characterized by transitions ... View quote
Peter Atkins
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. (David Hume)
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. View quote
Helen Keller
The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants. View quote
Gichin Funakoshi
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker. View quote
Plutarch