Character quotations

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◆ A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

- Charles Chaplin99

◆ You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

- Paul McCartney99

◆ Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.

- Diane Setterfield99

◆ What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.

- Ana?s Nin99

◆ You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe99

◆ I want to be the kind of person that kind people like and want to be like.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things'.

- John Burroughs99

◆ I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ It is better to be alone than in bad company.

- George Washington99

◆ Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

- R.J. Palacio99

◆ What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

- A.A. Milne99

◆ If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky99

◆ To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

- Theodore Roosevelt99