C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means”
“Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.”
“Character is beyond obligation. You could kick your shoes off at the door, flick your cigarete butts onto the sidewalk or talk only in slang, those things are forgivable if you have character”
Source: Missin' (Novel)
“Character is blazing sunshine in the soul's abode, the body.”
Source: Eternity's breath: aphorisms and essays
“Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.”
Source: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a well-made tower, character is built stone by stone, decision by decision.”
“Character is BUILT by repeatedly choosing the best over the easiest.”
“Character is built in the way we handle any circumstance.”
“Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.”
Source: Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose
“Character is built on every decision we make, especially those we make in secret.”
Source: The Promise of Rayne
“Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.”
“Character is built through the storm of life, not away from it. You have to face life to become all you were created to be.”
“Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.”
“Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World”
“Character is contagious.”
Source: Why Great Men Fall
“Character is destiny”
Source: Fragments
“Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.”
“Character is destiny.
- Heraclitus
Character is not a destiny; it is such a nature, which can decide and change that.
- Ehsan Sehgal”
“Character is destiny, that is, our life is closely linked to our behavior and vice versa.”
Source: Applied Daimonology. Principles and essays.
“Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.”
“Character is determined by choice, not opinion.”
“Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.”
“Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection.”
“Character is distilled out of our daily confrontation with temptation, out of our regular response to the call of duty. It is formed as we learn to cherish principles and to submit to self-discipline. Character is the sum total of all the little decisions, the small deeds, the daily reactions to the choices that confront us. Character is not obtained instantly. We have to mold and hammer and forge ourselves into character. It is a distant goal to which there is no shortcut.”
“Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay. When it comes to character, you dont have to be sick to get better. Its easier for a good person to get better than for a bad person to get good.”
“Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.”
“Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.”
“Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
“Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.”
“Character is ethics in action.”
“Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.”
“Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.”
“Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“Character is fate. Every day is training day.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Character is fate.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Character is forged not on the mountaintop but in the valley.”
Source: The Matheny Manifesto: A Young Manager's Old-School Views on Success in Sports and Life
“Character is formed out of those small decisions taken for granted”
“Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.”
“Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.”
Source: You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success
“Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.”
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”
“Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.”
Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
“Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.”
“Character is holding to our integrity when everyone around us is holding on to everything except their integrity and pressing us to do the same.”
“Character is how you treat people who can't do anything for you in return.
Integrity is how you act when you think nobody is looking.”
“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.”
Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.”
“Character is inured habit.”
“Character is itself a fortune.”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct