Character quotes

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

“I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.” Charlie Chaplin

“A man's character is his fate.” Heraclitus

“A man's character is his guardian divinity.” Heraclitus

“Character is destiny.” Heraclitus

“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.” Heraclitus

“I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.” Steve Jobs

“This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.” Lin Yutang

“Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age.” Albert Einstein

“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.” Mark Twain

“Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.” Robert Burns

“Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!” Robert Burns

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” Bruce Lee

“True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.” Corliss Lamont

“It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.” Antonio Banderas

“ 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

“All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.” Walt Disney

“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.” Og Mandino

“The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.” Sigmund Freud

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” Abraham Lincoln

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln

“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.” Plato

“States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.” Plato

“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.” Aristotle

“What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.” Aristotle

“Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.” Euripides

“Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.” Salvador Dali

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.” Stendhal

“As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.” Marcus Tullius Cicero