Character Quotes - page 6

Character is simply habit long continued. (Plutarch)
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood. View quote
Paul Newman
A man with no enemies is a man with no character. View quote
Paul Newman
If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. View quote
Paul Newman
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves. View quote
Ivan Turgenev
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. View quote
Margaret Chase Smith
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. View quote
Herbert Read
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government. View quote
Lysander Spooner
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love. View quote
Erich Fromm
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline. View quote
Alfred Jodl
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. View quote
Hosea Ballou
Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this order - for "rational” is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. View quote
Oswald Chambers
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. View quote
Mark Twain
It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible. (Mark Twain)
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. View quote
Walter Scott
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. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. View quote
Arthur Miller