Quotes About Character

A man's character is his fate.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Character is our destiny.

Man's character is his fate.

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.

Ethos anthropoi daimon--a man's character is his fate.

A man's character is his fate.

One's bearing shapes one's fate.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.

as the pure knowledge of God disappears, nature too in its true character is disowned, and either exalted into the sphere of the Godhead or degraded to the sphere of a demoniacal power.

The facts are that an essential difference exists between man and beast. Human nature is sui generis; it has its own character and attributes. If this be true, then the common origin of all men is a necessity;

Culture, therefore, sinks into the background; man must first become a son of God before he can be, in a genuine sense, a cultured being.

if sin bears an ethical character, then redemption is possible, and conversion is in principle the conquest of sin, the death of the old and the resurrection of the new man.

The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

The isolated, self-sufficient nature of speculation spoke to his character and was a source of wonder and an end in itself, regardless of what his earnings represented or afforded him. Luxury was a vulgar burden.

Por eso –me decía medio gritando– el dinero no dice nada de la gente que lo tiene. Nada. El dinero no dice nada de sus dueños. A diferencia de tener, no sé, talento, que sí define a una persona. La relación del dinero con el individuo es completamente accidental.

In soft regions are born soft men.

Badness can be got easily and in shoals; the road to her is smooth, and she lives very near us. But between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows;

I've tried to change, tried to make friends by being cheerful all the time. Seems to have failed. Can't force it, I guess. [...] The truth was, he was tired of maintaining a phony character and trying to adapt himself to other people day after day.

In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.