Law of Emotion

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. - Henry David Thoreau

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. - John Wooden

The great hope of society is individual character. - William Ellery Channing

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. - Herbert Hoover

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. - Paul Newman

Character is the root of the tree; conduct, the fruit it bears. - E.M. Bounds

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. - Arthur Koestler

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

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. - Oscar Levant

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Actions prove who someone is; words just prove who they want to be. - Unknown

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. - Mark Twain

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. - Lady Bird Johnson

While your circumstances are beyond your control, your character is not. - John C Maxwell

I was always a character actor: I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood. - Paul Newman

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. - Red Auerbach

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

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. - Henry David Thoreau

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. - Elizabeth Clarke Dunn

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships. - Jodie Foster

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. - Emily P. Bissell

It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them. - J. Petit Senn

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. - Oscar Wilde

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. - Joan Baez

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little. - Alexander Chase

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. - Thomas B Macaulay

I have noted that the healthy release of emotion is frequently very unhealthy for those closest to you. - Mr Spock

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

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. - Albert Einstein

A man of character does not expect to be liked by everyone, nor does he worry about being liked by anyone. - Unknown

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life. - John C. Geikie

Relationships are about give and take; not tit-for-tat. If you're keeping score, you'll lose at your own game. - Faydra D. Fields

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. - Aristotle

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain. - Rick Baker

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage. - William Bradford

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

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. - Groucho Marx