Character Building Quotations
You
cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself
one.
Henry David Thoreau
Be
your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon
your word.
Lord Chesterfield
Nothing
of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.
Daniel Webster
Character
is like a tree and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think
of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Parents
can only give good advice or put them on the right path, the the final
forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
The
essential thing is not knowledge, but character.
Joseph Le Conte
The
great hope of society is individual character.
William Ellery Channing
A
good name will shine forever.
Proverb
A
fair reputation is a plant, delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in
its growth. It will not shoot up in a night like the gourd of the prophet;
but, like that gourd, it may perish in a night.
Jeremy Taylor |
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best
formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free
choices of good and evil we have made through life.
John C. Geikie
John C. Geikie
Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone.
Cyrus A. Bartol
Cyrus A. Bartol
It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you
are.
Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
In the stormy current of life characters are weights or
floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another
maintain us on the surface.
Hippolyte Taine
Hippolyte Taine
Character is what you think in the dark.
Dwight L. Moody
Dwight L. Moody
Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.
John Hays Hammond
John Hays Hammond
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making
them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Characters do not
change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Benjamin Disraeli |
A man's character is like his shadow, which sometimes
follows and sometimes precedes him, and which is occasionally longer,
occasionally shorter, than he is.
Madame de la Rochejuquelein
Madame de la Rochejuquelein
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men best show their character in trifles, where they are
not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the
boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies
nothing to itself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in
which he lives. Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of
their times.
Voltaire
Voltaire
It is of little traits that the greatest human character is
composed.
William Winter
William Winter
Character is perfectly educated will.
Novalis
Novalis
Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and
the way we spend our time.
Elbert Green Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbard
Character and personal force are the only investments that
are worth anything.
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
Every thought willingly contemplated, every word meaningly
spoken, every action freely done, consolidates itself in the character, and
will project itself onward in a permanent continuity.
Henry Giles
Henry Giles
Character is, for the most part,
simply habit become fixed.
C. H. Parkhurst
simply habit become fixed.
C. H. Parkhurst
We are builders of our own characters. We have different
positions, spheres, capacities, privileges, different work to do in the
world, different temporal fabrics to raise; but we are all alike in this, --
all are architects of fate.
John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware
John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware
Character is, in the long run, the decisive factor in the
life of individuals and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which
you may spell character.
Johann Kasper Lavater
Johann Kasper Lavater
Every human being is intended to have a character of his
own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
William Henry Channing
William Henry Channing
Let us not say, Every man is the architect of his own
fortune; but let us say, Every man is the architect of his own character.
George Dana Boardman
George Dana Boardman
Fate is character.
William Winter
William Winter
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be
strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
