Character Quotes

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Charlie Chaplin

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Opinion, Realize, Seem

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Good, Parents, Person

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Good, Great, Bad

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change, Repair, Defect

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Real, Worth, Criterion

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Good, True, Children

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Ronald Reagan

Tell, Eating, Fellow

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle

May, Means, Almost

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Jim Rohn

Change, Born, Weren

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn Rand

Love, Emotional, Greatest

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
Dale Turner

Mistakes, Mistake, Judgment

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius

Worth, Ourselves, Turn

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Charles Spurgeon

Good, Best, Remember

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Opinion, Seem, Confession

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams, Judge, Natural

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Billy Graham

God, Mother, Children

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington

Hope, Enough, Honest

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
George Washington

Person, Mean, Sense

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle

Moral, Actions, Virtue

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato

Happiness, Men, Best

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
William Julius Wilson

Leadership, Best, Person

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Determined, Lack

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
Marilyn Monroe

Men, Evening, Give

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
Marilyn Monroe

Forward, Word, Looking

Beauty has a lot to do with character.
Kevyn Aucoin

Quote

Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine

Kept, Easier, Recovered

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Elbert Hubbard

Time, Attitude, Two

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