Character Quotes

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk

Change, Death, Long

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus

Men, Envy, Friend

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great, Through, Able

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone, Aim, Chief

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
Thomas A. Edison

Mind, Control, Create

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
T. S. Eliot

Knowledge, Passion, Importance

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Person, Lies, Hands

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
T. S. Eliot

Best, Become, Public

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.
Clint Eastwood

Fun, Yourself, Nothing

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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks

Great, May, Small

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fire, Down, Put

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus

Yourself, Public, Follow

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
Emma Goldman

Strong, Sex, Woman

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
Charlie Chaplin

Time, Person, Him

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Orison Swett Marden

Courage, Respect, Failure

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great, Reflection, Force

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer

Great, Mind, Light

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
George W. Bush

Leadership, Time, Country

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'Rourke

History, Death, Else

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
William James

Age, Again, Thirty

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
Carroll O'Connor

Good, Fool, Thought

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
Jerry Garcia

Society, Real, Whatever

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?
Mitt Romney

Time, Good, Real

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.
Carroll O'Connor

Down, Old, Again

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Dennis Prager

Courage, Kindness, Integrity

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
Mike Tyson

Pathetic, Dealers, Sympathize

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
John Locke

Around, Moral, Color

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen

Law, Destiny, Act

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
Alexis de Tocqueville

Money, Single, Question

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Booker T. Washington

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