Obedient Wives

Fate is character. - William Winter

Fame is the thirst of youth. - Lord Byron

Character is perfectly educated will. - Novalis

Adversity tests a man's true character. - Unknown

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

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. - Joshua Reynolds

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success. - John Hays Hammond

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed. - C.H. Parkhurst

Do what you know and perception is converted into character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's manner to a certain extent indicates his character. - Samuel Smiles

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

Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. - Leo Rosten

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

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

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

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. - John Wooden

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. - Ronald Reagan

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

No matter how much fame and fortune you achieve, don't get wrapped up in yourself. - Dal Richards

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Justice is the insurance we have on our lives, and obedience is the premium we pay for it. - William Penn

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

Your reputation is what you’re perceived to be, Your character is what you really are. - John Wooden

Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. - Joseph Campbell

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. - Malcolm S Forbes

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Character is that which reveals moral purposes, exposing the class of things man chooses or avoids. - Aristotle

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

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

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw. - Harvey Mackay

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. - Jack Horner

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different. - Harvey Mackay

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

From a shy, timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles. - Anna Dostoevsky

Never design your character like a garden where anyone can walk. Design your character like the sky where everyone's desire is to reach. - Unknown

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