CHARACTER QUOTES II

quotations about character

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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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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.

JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER

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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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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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Character calls forth character.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

MALCOLM FORBES

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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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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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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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Our characters are the result of our conduct.

ARISTOTLE

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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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By nothing do men show their character more than by the things they laugh at.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

BRUCE LEE

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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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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct, betray his opinion of your character.

ARTHUR HELPS

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If one could only tear down his character, as old buildings are torn down, and build it up anew, as these are rebuilt! And so, in effect, it can be. A noble property of character is, that it is susceptible of improvement.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

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There is a kind of character in thy life,
That to the observer doth thy history
Fully unfold.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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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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Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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There are often two characters of a man--that which is believed in by people in general, and that which he enjoys among his associates. It is supposed, but vainly, that the latter is always a more accurate approximation to the truth, whereas in reality it is often a part which he performs to admiration: while the former is the result of certain minute traits, certain inflexions of voice and countenance, which cannot be discussed, but are felt as it were instinctively by his domestics and by the outer world. The impressions arising from these slight circumstances he is able to efface from the minds of his constant companions, or from habit they have ceased to observe them.

ARTHUR HELPS

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