Character Quotes And Sayings

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“People don’t change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character”
– Chad Kultgen

“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.”
– Charles Alexander Eastman

“There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, “Mistakes were made,” you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.”
– Charles Baxter

“A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.”
– Charles Chaplin

“A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.”
– Charles de Gaulle

“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

“A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.”
– Charlie Chaplin

“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

“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

“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

“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
– Criss Jami

“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

“Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.”
– David O. McKay

“The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.”
– David O. McKay

“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.”
– Dean Koontz

“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

“In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.

But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.”
– Dorothy Parker

“The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it”
– Dwight Lyman Moody

“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
– Edmund Burke

“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.”
– Edna O’Brien

“Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“Character is plot, plot is character.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.”
– Fred Rogers

“A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow. ”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“Pale hair fell in waves to his shoulders, framing a face mortal females considered a sensual feast. They didn’t know the man was actually a devil in angel’s skin. They should have, though. He practically glowed with irreverence, and there was an unholy gleam in his green eyes that proclaimed he would laugh in your face while cutting out your heat. Or laugh in your face while you cut out
– Gena Showalter

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

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