Character

PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences by reading character in the wrinkles of the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word dupe.

- Ambrose Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It should not be something that feels intoxicating or out of character...

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

- Aeschylus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

- Thomas Paine Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.

- Edgar Allan Poe Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

- Theodore Roosevelt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

- Jean Paul Richter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another's.

- Jean Paul Richter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

- John Wooden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

From a man's face, I can read his character if I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

- Petronius Arbiter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak they show what he is.

- Thomas à Kempis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

- Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army. Onefriend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one'snation affect the individual.

- Jean Paul Richter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Characters do not change.- Opinions alter, but characters Are only developed.

- Benjamin Disraeli Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

- Elbert Hubbard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.

- Anthony Trollope Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great challenges are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.

- Abigail Smith Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, Thou art such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, That there's no living with thee, or without thee.

- Martial Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Anne Frank Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

- Alphonse Karr Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A mans character is his fate.

- Heraclitus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.

- James M. Barrie Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

- Grenville Kleiser Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

- Katharine Hepburn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes