Names of the Colours

Be polite to all, but intimate with few. - Thomas Jefferson

Fame is proof that the people are gullible. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life always takes on the character of its motive. - J.G. Holland

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity. - J.B. Gough

Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone. - Cyrus A. Bartol

In my last movie I played an unsympathetic character - myself. - Oscar Levant

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. - Dag Hammarskjold

Unto ourselves our own life is necessary, unto others our character. - St. Augustine

I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers. - Eden Robinson

It is of little traits that the greatest human character is composed. - William Winter

Most women are afraid of clowns, but somehow end up still dating one. - Unknown

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. - Aristotle

Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs. - Homer Simpson

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs. - Woody Hayes

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship. - Sharon Stone

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame. - Baltasar Gracian

The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character. - Emma Dunham Kelley

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. - Erma Bombeck

John Wooden was a hall of fame character long before he was a hall of fame coach. - John C Maxwell

Peppering your relationship with a dash of mystery can make it far more palatable. - Khang K. Nguyen

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. - Lin Yutang

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold. - Vanna Bonta

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. - Buddha

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. - Zig Ziglar

Don't be accusing me of taking a bribe. You know what they call that, "definition of character." - Archie Bunker

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success. - Ingrid Bergman

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs. - Joan Didion

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. - Oscar Wilde

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. - Unknown

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right path, the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. - Andre Maurois

There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it's the endings we're unprepared for. - Katherine Owen

I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing. - Tim Allen

Education commences on the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. - Hosea Ballou

Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times. - Voltaire

More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting. - Stephen Covey