CHARACTER QUOTES II

quotations about character

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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.

JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER

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Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence.

E. H. CHAPIN

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Many people allow others to mold and influence their lives. These people are negative. Strong and positive people will mold their own character and make their circumstances and environment whatever they desire.

WALTER MATTHEWS

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Our characters are the result of our conduct.

ARISTOTLE

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Deeds, not words, are the demonstration and test of character.

WILLIAM ARCHER

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Character calls forth character.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity and inconsistency, and a comparison of them with each other, that the knowledge of man is acquired.

FULKE GREVILLE

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There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

FULKE GREVILLE

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The tragedies of most of our modern poets fail in the rendering of character; and of poets in general this is often true.

ARISTOTLE

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Now, as Nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbours, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches! It is the study of nature, surely, that provits us, and not of these imitations of her. A man, as a man, from a dustman up to Aeschylus, is God's work, and good to read, as all works of Nature are: but the silly animal is never content; is ever trying to fit itself into another shape; wants to deny its own identity, and has not the courage to utter its own thoughts.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

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Character, like wine or cold tea in a bottle, takes its shape from the environment.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

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And so it becomes perfectly clear that in the heavenly country, where all character is like a crystal sea, everybody can see to the bottom of everybody, and everybody finds delight in the transparency, because in that country there is unlimited human communion, and no one harbors anything which he wants to have concealed.

DR. JOWETT

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Your character becomes distorted
In the quest for an identity
Why hide behind the truth
Of what you are?

NAPALM DEATH

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Perhaps the natural character of a man may be best seen before breakfast. The world is created anew for us every morning, and he is just then reissued, as it were, from the hands of nature, with all his original peculiarities fresh upon him.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

BRUCE LEE

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Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

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Character is power, character is influence, and he who has character, though he may have nothing else, has the means of being eminently useful, not only to his immediate friends, but to society, to the church of God and to the world.

PETER EDWARD KERN

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Character is what a person is in the dark.

GRENVILLE KLEISER

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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

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