Character - Quotes
Brain, character, soul - only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.
Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians - lack of power to pronounce the syllable, No. To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only two means to preserve one`s freedom and one`s character.
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person`s character lies in their own hands.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man`s character, give him power.
To have compassion for a character is no different from having compassion for another human being.
Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn-and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
To women who please me only by their faces I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break - at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent - I am ever tender and true.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another`s.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.