Quotes about character
character government revolution
Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. George Washington
character would-be found
If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.
character greatness great-character
It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.
character spy ambassadors
An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.
character men important
To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.
character adversity liberty
The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.
character men firsts
Good moral character is the first essential in a man.
character government office
In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.
character america people
We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.
character important firsts
A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.
character personality sagacity
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. George Santayana
character past historical-novels
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
character greatness men
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.
character destiny scandal
Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them. George Packer
character republican made
I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be. George McGovern
character names history
If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! G. M. Trevelyan
character men done
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men. G. H. Hardy
character men belief
To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving. Fyodor Dostoevsky
character experience determined
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. Friedrich Nietzsche
character long suffering
So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.
character men typical
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
character reality men
When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.
character support lasts
Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.
character wind stupidity
The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.
character race class
It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect the historical development of races from different standpoints; and that the results of the three classifications are not comparable, because the historical facts do not affect the three classes of phenomena equally. A consideration of all these classes of facts is needed when we endeavour to reconstruct the early history of the races of mankind. Franz Boas
character ancestry determined
The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.
character writing fiction
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. Franklin P. Adams
character thinking dare
It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is. Franz Grillparzer
character crowds mimicry
The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
character poetry world
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
character spotlight
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere. Jeanette Winterson
character voice answers
A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you're out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it's the character speaking and not you.
character confusion literature
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.