Famous Character Quotes Part – 16

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It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.

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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments.

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‘It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.’

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It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.

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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

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It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man’s deeper nature is soon found out.

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It is our character that supports the promise of our future – far more than particular government programs or policies. William Bennett quotes

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate – to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.’ Thomas Jefferson

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It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune… Samuel Smiles quotes

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It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

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It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

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It is the formidable character of the species to routinely seek the improbable, the difficult, even the impossible, as a source of pleasure and self-justification. Who would try to write poems, or novels, or paint pictures unless he is an optimist?

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It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character

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It seems that in a lot of foreign countries the crime novel is placed on a higher shelf and recognized more as a method of holding up a mirror to society. In the US there is more of a sense that these are entertainments or puzzles first, social investigations or character studies second. Consequently, when I have traveled overseas the questions I tend to get from media and people at book signings tend to be more in regard to the deeper themes and subjects of the books.

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It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson


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