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What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing. -- Douglas Southall Freeman
Character is simply habit long continued. -- Plutarch
Character is the measure of our freedom from the tyranny of our instincts. It is the space we create between our urges and our actions. -- Valson Thampu
Character is the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I have one outstanding trait in my character, which must strike anyone who knows me for any length of time, and that is my self-knowledge. I can watch myself and my actions, just like an outsider. -- Francine Prose
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. -- Pablo Picasso
Character is who you are when no one is looking. -- Allan Williams
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Character is contagious. -- Wayde Goodall
My search for more attributes ended when I was halted in my tracks by the sky in her eyes looking back.
I took the ball. And she noticed the sky in my eyes too.
Our eyes kissed, and from that moment, we were inseparable. -- Craig Stone
Character is a lack of doubt, character is stubbornly persevering in an intention no matter how senseless it is, character is a lack of imagination, character is inborn dullness, character is the misfortune of humanity. -- Tadeusz Konwicki
Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't be ultimately changed. It's the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins. -- Sam Shepard
Intelligent? Kind? -- Nicholas Sparks
Character is that which can do without success. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charisma is the intangible that makes people want to follow you,
to be around you, to be influenced by you. -- Roger Dawson
Personality, too, is destiny. -- Erik Erikson
Inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenges, to extend and exercise their capacities, to explore, and to learn. -- Daniel H. Pink
Among all life forms, there are creatures with charisma and creatures without. It's one of those ineffable qualities we can't quite define, but we all seem to respond similarly to. -- Susan Orlean
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. -- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc. -- Aaron Sorkin
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. -- Henry Clay
A person's authentic nature is a series of shifting, variegated planes that establish themselves as he relates to different people; it is created by and appears within the framework of his interpersonal relationships. -- Philip K. Dick
We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way. -- Aristotle.
What personality does it take to drive a car around a track 100 times or hit a ball back and forth. That's not very personality is it? -- Tyson Fury
... character reigns preeminent in determining potential. -- Laura Hillenbrand
He could not change his nature, could not help being cautious, deliberate, introspective, not traits to be scorned by any means, but traits that seemed dull, bland - even to him - when compared with Davydd's hell-for-leather dazzle. -- Sharon Kay Penman
There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal ... -- Jane Austen
and mentally aberrant type. -- H.p. Lovecraft
You know like it has its own personality, its own character. -- Marc Newson
A third characteristic is the deliberate multi-styled and heterovoiced nature of all these genres. They reject the stylistic unity (or better, the single-styled nature) of the epic, the tragedy, high rhetoric, the lyric. -- Mikhail Bakhtin
Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
agreeableness, extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, and conscientiousness. And -- Paul Tough
A mind always hopeful, confident, courageous, and determined on its set purpose, and keeping itself to that purpose, attracts to itself out of the elements things and powers favourable to that purpose. -- Ralph Waldo Trine
My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived. -- Sam Shepard
Manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life. -- Emily Post
Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa. -- Johannes Kepler
Character is what you have when nobody is looking. -- Marie Dressler
Personality is a series of unbroken gestures. -- F Scott Fitzgerald
Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success. -- John Hays Hammond
Character is long-standing habit. -- Plutarch
Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue. -- Jack Woodford
Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety. -- E. O. Wilson
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions. -- Bertrand Russell
Fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning. That -- Carol S. Dweck
Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind. -- Winston Churchill
Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth. -- Wojciech Kurtyka
I think what I have is straightforwardness, unabashedness rather than charm. -- Nicholas Haslam
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions. -- Samuel Smiles
Charm is that extra quality that defies description. -- Alfred Lunt
EYou reveal your character by what you do with what you have. -- Ge Paulus
I think an important quality that I have is that if you turn on the radio and hear somebody sing, you know it's me. You don't confuse my voice with another voice. -- Luciano Pavarotti
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. -- John Howe
The third trait is divisiveness. This is often taught at our home, particularly our family and relatives, where we learn about the differences amongst people. Our -- Chetan Bhagat
Character is the architect of the being. -- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. -- Jennifer Jones
Oddness or novelty (qualities which usually give value to anything) -- Michel De Montaigne
The temperament reflects everything like a mirror. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Unquestionable ability elevates our personality. -- Kishore Bansal
A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing. -- Tom Landry
Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good. -- Thomas Lickona
Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain. -- Justin Cronin
The features of character are carved out of adversity. -- Rick Barnett
Music is a defining element of character. -- Plato
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true. -- Blaise Pascal
The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality ... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent ... -- Ellen Glasgow
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness. -- R.j. Palacio
Character of any person is the aggregate of his or her conscientious tendencies - the sum total of the knacks of the civilized part of the mind. -- Abhijit Naskar
Striking in its insistence and durability is the quest or desire for a decisive criterion with which to differentiate humans from other animals as well as the human from the animal in human beings. -- Dominick Lacapra
The deeds and motive of man define his personality. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects. -- Marianne Williamson
What is inherent inside you is your uniqueness and peculiarity -- Sunday Adelaja
Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm. -- Ralph Archbold
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. -- Cecil Beaton
Any marked peculiarity in the face indicates a similar peculiarity of disposition -- Jandy Nelson
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. -- Hans Hofmann
The distinction of one person's character can be illustrated by
this word : attitude -- Ency Bearis
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties. -- Comte De Lautreamont
You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them -- Zig Ziglar
A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character ... -- John Stuart Mill
All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes,
with a strong memory or fire and brimstone. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Things: your perspective or beliefs about yourself, and a quality we can call "like-ability." Like-ability can be defined as the ability to build rapport so that others listen to you. We listen to the people we like. -- Andy Andrews
We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated. -- Abraham Maslow
Character, the sportswriters said. They know it when they see it - it's the ability to dig down and find the strength even when things are going against you. -- Carol S. Dweck
Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life. -- Douglas Southall Freeman
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are. -- Alphonse Karr
Creativity is an integral part of our personality. -- Jerzy Vetulani
The Element is the meeting point between natural aptitude and personal passion. -- Ken Robinson
The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease. -- Doug Stanhope
Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds. -- Edwin Land
The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word. -- Oswald Chambers
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. -- August Strindberg
Personality in man is what is "not his own" ... what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory. -- G.i. Gurdjieff
Charisma is a word that erodes stale on the page. When compared with the tangible, flesh experience it tries to label, it falls short. The only way to understand it, is to meet it. -- Brian D'ambrosio
Character is less about what we do wrong
And
All about what we make right ... -- Navonne Johns
The more we delve into the essence of personality, the more we learn that in this world, certainly rich with natural beauty and things worthy of seeing, nothing is more attractive and worthier of knowing and experiencing than people. -- Magnus Hirschfeld
Originality of mind untainted,
And enthusiasm for life, unlimited. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
