More quotations tagged with “character”
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
—Stendhal
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.
—Joan Didion
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
—Japanese proverb
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
—James A. Froude