Quotes About Character

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

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

Do not say things. Who you are thunders over you all the while so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Doing well is a result of doing good.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also. We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills.

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Men are what their mothers made them.

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use.

You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one nature wrote and the same reads.

Tis not important how the hero does this or this, but what he is. What he is will appear in every gesture and syllable. In this way the moment and the character are one.

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character.

for the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. . . . The force of character is cumulative.