Character Quotes

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

A superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

An educated man without character and humility is more dangerous than a beast.

The Turkish nation's character is noble. The Turkish nation is industrious. The Turkish nation is intelligent.

The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

A man far often appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he judges 'what harms me is harmful in itself', he knows himself to be that which in general accords honour to things, he creates values.

Giving style to one's character-a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

In Germany there is much complaining about my eccentricities. But since it is not known where my center is, it won't be easy to find out where or when I have thus far been eccentric.

The Socialists, and I am still one, although an exasperated one, never brought forward the question of irredentism, but left it to the Republicans. We are in favour of a national war. But there are also reasons, purely socialist in character, which spur us on towards intervention.

If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and expecting that the effects of widespread causes, though very different in each individual, will produce an average result on the whole nation, from a study of which we may estimate the character and propensities of an imaginary being called the Mean Man.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.