Life is all a variorum, We regard not how it goes; Let them cant about decorum, Who have character to lose. A fig for those by law protected! Liberty’s a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest.
Character Quotes
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Our characters are a result of our conduct.
It is an old saying, and one of fearful and fathomless import, that we are forming characters for eternity. Forming characters? Whose? Our own or others? Both – and in that momentous act lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
The (ancient) Greeks believed that character was formed in part by fate and in part by parental training, and that character was exemplified not only by acts of bravery in battle but in the habits of daily conduct.
A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
The great hope of society is in individual character.
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Character must be kept bright, as well as clean.
