Character Quotes

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

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

Leadership, Time, Country

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Horace Greeley

Fame, Accident, Popularity

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

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

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

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

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.
Charles Wilson

Peace, War, Daily

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

Life, Success, Power

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Orison Swett Marden

Work, True, Value

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp

Life, Happiness, Moving

Character is long-standing habit.
Plutarch

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.
James Dean

Help, Learned, Actor

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
Roger Babson

Good, Health, Money

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali

Work, Art, Society

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Cyril Connolly

Health, True, Wife

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
Frederick Douglass

Him, Less, Color

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Sigmund Freud

Between, Ambition, Bed

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
Alfred Hitchcock

Motivation, Actor, Wants

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
Lance Armstrong

Mom, Strong, Tough

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Style, Simplicity, Excellence

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Him, Manner, Becomes

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

Life, Beauty, Work

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
Louis Farrakhan

Leadership, Black, Far

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
Benjamin Disraeli

Sure, Voice, Index

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cannot, Weakness, Defect

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
Emmet Fox

Life, Food, Mind

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Live, Race

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
Stephen Covey

Home, Positive, Strength

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