Character Quotes

That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.

Orson Scott Card

A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.

Jack Miner

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]

Virginia Woolf

I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird.

Benjamin Franklin

The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better.

Thomas Jefferson

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

Albert Camus

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Christian Nevell Bovee

The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.

Ambrose Bierce

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.

Charles R. Brown

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Agatha Christie

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

Stephen King

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

Louis L'Amour

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Henry Drummond

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Novalis

It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.

Horace Mann

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

Og Mandino

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Jean Paul Richter

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Jean Paul Richter

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson