Quotes about character
276 quotes from 175 people
I’m not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn’t changed me.
Bobby Fischer1943–2008Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
E. M. Forster1879–1970What I Believe (1938)People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France1844–1924The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), Pt. II, ch. 4- Anatole France1844–1924The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), Pt. II, ch. 4
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Critical Path (1981)I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
James A. Garfield1831–1881A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being A Cyclopedia Of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 327
Charles de Gaulle1890–1970Le Fil de l’épée (1932)In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Edward Gibbon1737–1794The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776–1788), Chap. 48It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
André Gide1869–1951Autumn Leaves, Philosophical eLibrary, 2012, (Feuillets d’automne, 1941, trans. Jeanine Parisier Plottel)Two souls, alas! reside within my breast,
And each withdraws from, and repels, its brother.A good man, through obscurest aspiration,
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Vägmärken · Markings (1963), 1955
