Character Quotes

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

Jane Austen

We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can't stop pissing on fire hydrants...I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. she walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. She knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either.People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism?The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

John Green

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age

Albert Einstein

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world -- intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man..

Aldous Huxley

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

William Shakespeare

In order to form correct habits, we should seek the company of persons of sound moral and religious influence. We should constantly bear in mind that we may be fitting to inhabit the heavenly courts. The precious hours of probation are granted that we may remove every defect from the character; and we should seek to do this, not only that we may obtain the future life, but that we may be useful here. Young men and women should regard a good character as a capital of more value than gold or silver or stocks. It will be unaffected by panics and failures, and will bring rich returns when earthly possessions shall be swept away.

Ellen G. White, Testimonies for

He is like a good prewar house-solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several times.

Theodore White

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Eugenio Montale

If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil.

Mole

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

Character is a victory, not a gift.

Source Unknown

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

Thomas Carlyle

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The most important feature of Christ's character was... his confidence in the greatness of the human soul.

Leo Tolstoy

Nicio viata nu e stricata cu exceptia celei care este oprita. Daca vrei sa strici caracterul cuiva nu trebuie decat sa il reformezi

Oscar Wilde

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

William M. Bulger

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Sir John Lubbock

Human improvement is from within outward.

James A. Froude