Quotes About Character

Quotes About Character Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.” ― Mahatma Gandhi tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship 7,460 people liked it like Charlotte Brontë “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women 2,922 people liked it like Maya Angelou “Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” ― Maya Angelou tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues 2,804 people liked it like Abigail Van Buren “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.” ― Abigail Van Buren tags: character, life, wisdom 2,404 people liked it like Abraham Lincoln “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” ― Abraham Lincoln tags: adversity, character, power 1,740 people liked it like Albert Einstein “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters” ― Albert Einstein tags: character, honesty, integrity 1,235 people liked it like Maya Angelou “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” ― Maya Angelou tags: adversity, character, failure, perseverance 1,144 people liked it like Cassandra Clare “When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel tags: character, deeds 1,083 people liked it like Nicholas Sparks “In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song tags: character, inspirational, integrity, nobility 1,041 people liked it like Cassandra Clare “Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel tags: character, clockwork-angel, jem-carstairs, lamp, light, soul, warrior 935 people liked it like Charlotte Brontë “I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, love, men, realism, romance, self-awareness, self-determination, women 934 people liked it like John Wooden “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” ― John Wooden tags: advice-for-daily-living, character, inspirational, self-image 720 people liked it like Helen Keller “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” ― Helen Keller tags: character 706 people liked it like Jane Austen “I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice tags: character, flaws, mr-darcy, pride-and-prejudice, temper 618 people liked it like Martin Luther King Jr. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. tags: character, dream, inspirational, prejudice, race 600 people liked it like Mark Twain “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” ― Mark Twain tags: bravery, character, courage, moral-courage 598 people liked it like George Washington “It is better to be alone than in bad company.” ― George Washington tags: character, honor, reputation 540 people liked it like Charles Chaplin “A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.” ― Charles Chaplin tags: character, drunk, humor, people, truth 518 people liked it like Paul McCartney “You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.” ― Paul McCartney tags: animals, beatles, character, man, vegetarianism 517 people liked it like Diane Setterfield “All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.” ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale tags: books, character, characters, ideas, impact, reading 483 people liked it like Cornelia Funke “Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?” ― Cornelia Funke tags: books, character, cornelia-funke, existentialism, words, writers, writing 481 people liked it like Abraham Lincoln “Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.” ― Abraham Lincoln tags: appearances, character, simile, substance 481 people liked it like A.A. Milne “What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.” ― A.A. Milne tags: character, food, potatoes 439 people liked it like Michael Ondaatje “We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.” ― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient tags: character, death, experience, relationships 434 people liked it like Anaïs Nin “What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.” ― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 tags: character, courage, destiny, empowerment, responsibility, self-control, self-improvement 393 people liked it like Jarod Kintz “I want to be the kind of person that kind people like and want to be like.” ― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it. tags: admiration, admire, aspiration, aspire, character, desire, friendship, kindness, people, personality 379 people liked it like Theodore Roosevelt “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” ― Theodore Roosevelt tags: character, education, morality 347 people liked it like John Burroughs “One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.” ― John Burroughs tags: character, hope, motivational 344 people liked it like W. Somerset Maugham “When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.” ― W. Somerset Maugham tags: character, friendship 332 people liked it like Terry Goodkind “I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.” ― Terry Goodkind, Confessor