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Genteel in personage,
Conduct, and equipage;
Noble by heritage,
Generous and free.

Genteel in personage,
Conduct, and equipage;
Noble by heritage,
Generous and free.

by Henry Carey Found in: Character Quotes,
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To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

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Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)

Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)

by Horace Found in: Character Quotes,
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is read more

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

by Henry Ward Beecher Found in: Character Quotes,
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In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick,
So they call him for short, is a regular brick;
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In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick,
So they call him for short, is a regular brick;
A metaphor taken--I have not the page aright--
From an ethical work by the Stagyrite.

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and ;Independence.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and ;Independence.

by Edward Rickenbacker Found in: Character Quotes,
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

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No, when the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something.

No, when the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something.

by Robert Browning Found in: Character Quotes,
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