C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.”
“Character is that which can do without success.”
“Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.”
“Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.”
“Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.”
“Character is the architect of the being.”
“Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.”
“Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.”
Source: The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One
“Character is the best security.”
“Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without.”
Source: Eternity's breath: aphorisms and essays
“Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.”
“Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.”
“Character is the glue that bonds solid and meaningful relationships”
Source: The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
“Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.”
“Character is the key to becoming what you were meant to be. Without it, good books never get published, beautiful symphonies are never performed. Without character, we never accomplish anything.”
Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters
“Character is the line in the sand between the worst of the good people and the best of the bad ones”
“Character is the main object of education.”
“Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.”
“Character is the most precious gift of education.”
“Character is the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Character is the only secure foundation of the state.”
Source: Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings
“Character is the plot in many ways”
“Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the man.”
“Character is the real you-“the you in you that makes you the you, you are”
Source: Discovering Yourself
“Character is the real you-“the you in you that makes you the you, you are”. “the hidden man of the heart” (1Peter 3:4).”
Source: Discovering Yourself
“Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.”
“Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.”
“Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.”
Source: Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things
“Character is the salesperson”
“Character is the salesperson's stock in trade. The product itself is secondary. Truthfulness, enthusiasm and patience are great assets to every salesperson. Without them, they couldn't go far. Courage and courtesy are essential equipment.”
“Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.”
Source: Character and characteristic men
“Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.”
“Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us.”
“Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.”
“Character is the virtue of hard times.”
Source: The Edge of the Sword
“Character is too deep to catch in a single storyline. What really moves us - what makes the great stories, and there aren't so many of them - is the inevitability of character. The destiny. All we see is the arc. We'll never penetrate the secrets of the living, let alone the dead. I've spent my whole life trying to understand people, and all I've learned is that the deeper we look, the greater the mystery. At the core, each person is unknowable. Maybe that's the soul? I have to respect that. The mystery, in fact, is what I've loved the most, in people and in stories as well.”
“Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse--either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.”
Source: Character
“Character is very much a matter of health.”
“Character is very rare. If you suspect a person has it, the wiser and smarter decision you should make is to value that person.”
“Character is victory organized.”
“Character is what a man is in the dark.”
“Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter until there's a story - until someone comes in and holds us hostage.”
“Character is what the world needs - character that will empower the mind with such an unimaginable strength that one would meet death face to face and say “some other time, pal!”
Source: Principia Humanitas
“Character is what we do when no one else is watching"
~R. Alan Woods [2012]”
Source: The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal
“Character is what you are in the dark.”
“Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.”
Source: Chanakya's Chant
“Character is what you do in the dark.”
“Character is what you do when no one is watching.”
“Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.”