Fri 10 Nov 2006
Quotes and sayings on Human Character
Posted by Penelope under Motivational Sayings
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
“The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.”
“If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character.”
“Our character…is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.”
“What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.”
“The (ancient) Greeks believed that character was formed in part by fate and in part by parental training, and that character was exemplified not only by acts of bravery in battle but in the habits of daily conduct.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
“In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.”
“Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.”
” Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another. ”
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”












April 25th, 2008 at 10:36 am
“It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.”
April 25th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have… a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can’t open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.
Elias Boudinot, quotes about Character:
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.