Character Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Character
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
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
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
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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.
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus
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
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.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humans make illogical decisions.
- Spock (character in Star Trek movies and TV shows)
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next 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
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
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
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
To deny the facts would be illogical.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Problem: attitude.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
Most people say that is it is the intellect
which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein
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.
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
Grit ruins clam chowder,
but enhances your character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Character is always known.
Thefts never enrich;
alms never impoverish;
murder will speak out of stone walls.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles Schultz' 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
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
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
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
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.
- Simon and Garfunkel
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
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
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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