character Quotes

“To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which not only takes the place of our normal character but actually obliterates the signs by which that character has hitherto been discernible.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

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“the more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

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“A man's character is his guardian divinity.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

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“The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.”

― Charles de Gaulle, The Edge of the Sword

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“The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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“I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked on to the stage he was fully born.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

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“But what a man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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“One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”

― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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“the States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.”

― Plato, The Republic

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