Quotes about character
276 quotes from 175 people
William S. Burroughs1914–1997The Place Of Dead Roads (1983), p. 155
Bruce Lee1940–1973Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 46
Nicolas Chamfort1740–1794Maximes et pensées (1805)
Richard Bachborn 1936The Bridge Across Forever (1984)
Samuel Beckett1906–1989Molloy (1951)
Anthony Trollope1815–1882The Warden (1855), Ch. 3My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.
Charlie Chaplin1889–1977My Autobiography (1964)I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
Anaïs Nin1903–1977Diary entry, 25 March 1933Ultimately what we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
Jawaharlal Nehru1889–1964Parliamentary Debates [Parliament of India] Pt.2 V.12-13 (1951)The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
E. M. Forster1879–1970What I Believe (1938)What is unique about the “I” hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person.
Milan Kundera1929–2023The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight, ch. 9It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
O. Henry1862–1910Whirligigs (1910)The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit — a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller1839–1937The Men Who Are Making America (1918) by Bertie Charles ForbesMost men become successful and famous, not through ambition, but through ability and character.
WFWilliam Feather1889–1981The Business of Life (1949)My “act” has ended by becoming an integral part of my nature, I told myself. It’s no longer an act.
Yukio Mishima1925–1970Confessions of a Mask (1949), p. 153.