Quotes about Character
A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis not important how the hero does this or this, but what he is. What he is will appear in every gesture and syllable. In this way the moment and the character are one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
for the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson