Character Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Character
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Wisdom
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To deny the facts would be illogical.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
- Anne Frank
Problem: attitude.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The movie character Forrest Gump describing life
as being "like a box of chocolates,"
is such a positive upbeat way of
characterizing the uncertainty of life.
I have no idea what life will give me next,
but whatever it is, it will be sweet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau
Grit ruins clam chowder,
but enhances your character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)
Character is always known.
Thefts never enrich;
alms never impoverish;
murder will speak out of stone walls.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
How true Daddy's words were when he said:
all children must look after their own upbringing.
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.
- Anne Frank
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Humans make illogical decisions.
- Spock (character in Star Trek movies and TV shows)
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
Most people say that is it is the intellect
which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
We make sacred pact. I promise teach
karate to you, you promise learn.
I say, you do, no questions.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
- Anonymous
First, wash all car. Then wax. Wax on...
Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off.
Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off.
Don't forget to breathe, very important.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Organic buildings are the strength
and lightness of the spiders' spinning,
buildings qualified by light,
bred by native character to environment,
married to the ground.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Sports teaches you character,
it teaches you to play by the rules.
Sports teaches you to know what
it feels like to win and lose,
it teaches you about life.
- Billie Jean King
It is a wonderful advantage to a man,
in every pursuit or avocation,
to secure an adviser in a sensible woman.
In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact,
and a plain soundness of judgement,
which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man.
A woman, if she be really your friend,
will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute.
She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing:
for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Characters Quotes and Sayings
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Written Quotes and Sayings
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.
- Simon and Garfunkel
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Miracles are a retelling in small letters
of the very same story
which is written across the whole world
in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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