— Alexander Pope"If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business."
Character Quotes
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Authors on Character
— Desmond Tutu"It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible."
— Arthur Schopenhauer"It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character."
— T. S. Eliot"All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords."
— Henry David Thoreau"The perception of beauty is a moral test."
— Albert Einstein"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Personality is everything in art and poetry."
— Virginia Woolf"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
— Chuck Palahniuk"The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone."
— Nicolas Cage"At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man."
— Larry Hagman"'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR."
— William James"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
— Donald Antrim"The harmony of the universe dictates that character is forged in the fires of discipline."
— Carol Anshaw"A resilient spirit knows that character is forged in the fires of discipline."
— Allen Adler"The simplest truths often reveal that character is forged in the fires of discipline."
— Vereen Bell"To leave a mark on the world, remember that character is forged in the fires of discipline."
— Richard Amory"The essence of creativity is the belief that character is forged in the fires of discipline."
— Patricia Aakhus"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that character is forged in the fires of discipline."
— Leigh Bardugo"The greatest deception is forgetting that character is forged in the fires of discipline."
— Jonis Agee"To walk the path of enlightenment means character is forged in the fires of discipline."