C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Character contributes to beauty.”
“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.”
“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”
“Character counts. A lot. The right leadership can be more important than the right idea, the right team, or even the right business model.”
Source: StartUp Saboteurs: How Incompetence, Ego, and Small Thinking Prevent True Wealth Creation
“Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.”
“Character deaths in and of itself should never be done for shock.”
“Character demonstrates itself in trifles.”
Source: Goose-quill Papers
“Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose.”
“Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.”
“Character determines fate.”
Source: Half Moon Bay
“Character determines how we lead our lives, how we deal with life's unearned fortunes and misfortunes and how we make choices that determine how those fortunes and misfortunes work to make us what we become.”
“Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while Im walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.”
“Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.”
“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
“Character doesn't matter.”
“Character driven stories engage me and when an audience gets to know a character in an unforced way and finds themselves rooting for him or her, those are the kind of movies that get me excited.”
“Character Education helps to create an environment for caring and learning in schools.”
“Character enough of an opposite description ... My opinion is ... that you could as soon scrub the blackamore white, as to change the principles of a profest Democrat; and that he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“Character first, cash later.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.”
“Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.”
“Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.”
“Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.”
“Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.”
“Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence.”
“Character has outlived its day. In ancient, primitive times, when biologically weak man struggled against omnipotent nature, character was useful, beneficial; with hideous labor it shoved the heavy stone of human impotence forward. We learned to praise ourselves, to admire character, to prostrate ourselves before it, make a fetish of it. But today no one has the courage to discredit character, although, psychologically speaking, it is now a throwback, simply reactionary.”
Source: A Minor Apocalypse
“Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour’s meditation, because you saw in another way of living a more intense significance. And it required still more character never to regret the sudden step.
I wondered if Abraham really had made a hash of life. Is to do what you most want, to live under the conditions that please you, in peace with yourself, to make a hash of life; and is it success to be an eminent surgeon with ten thousand a year and a beautiful wife? I suppose it depends on what meaning you attach to life, the claim which you acknowledge to society, and the claim of the individual. But again I held my tongue, for who am I to argue with a knight?”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's".”
“Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes.”
“Character in a play is that which reveals the moral purpose of the agents, ie, the sort of thing they seek or avoid, where that is not obvious— hence there is no room for character in a speech on a purely indifferent subject.”
Source: Poetics
“Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.”
Source: Biblical Psychology: Christ-Centered Solutions for Daily Problems
“Character in leadership comes down to two questions: Would you trade places with anyone under your command? Do you hold yourself to the same level of accountability as those for whom you bear responsibility?”
Source: Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate
“Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.”
“Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.”
“Character. Intelligence. Strength. Style. That makes beauty.”
“Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."”
“Character is a choice whatever the circumstance; In the NRM you can choose to be a Hon. Ruhakana Rugunda, an Ofwono Opondo or a Tamale Mirundi. And in the Opposition you can choose to be a Gen. Mugisha Muntu, a Munyagwa or a Kato Lubwama.”
“Character is a course, finish it.”
“Character is a journey, not a destination.”
“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.”
Source: A Minor Apocalypse
“Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.”
“Character is a perfectly educated will.”
“Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing”
“Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are good ones that last a long time. But they don't last forever.”
Source: Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
“Character is a strange blending of flinty strength and pliable warmth.”
“Character is a very rare and important value that a lot of folks lack because it's expensive. Not everyone has it.”
“Character is a wish for a perfect education.”
“Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.”
“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.”