Quotes about People/Character

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable - Louisa May Alcott

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. The end is gain, of course. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be made strong, in fact. But the process is like all other human births, painful and long and dangerous. - Margery Allingham

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within. - Ramona L. Anderson

A friend listens with her eyes and her heart….and understands what you can’t put into words.- Anonymous

Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies - Aristotle

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. - Jane Austen

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. - Georges Bernanos

For memory has painted this perfect day with colors that never fade, and we find at the end of a perfect day the soul of a friend we’ve made. - Carrie Jacobs Bond

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who doesnot consult his calendar. - Robert Brault

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be you - Leo Buscaglic

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. - John Cage

This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. - Orson Scott Card

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference. - Jimmy Carter

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it - Julia Child

If we are unwilling to be aware of the dark, we cannot see the light. - John Cowan

Through knowing her I became a better person, and she said the same of me. - Amanda Cross

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things - Denis Diderot

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. - Marian Wright Edelman

Weakness of attitude becomes a weakness of character - Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. - Albert Einstein

The greatest gift is a portion of thy self - Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank

Always be a first - rated version of yourself, instead of a second - rated version of somebody else. - Judy Garland

The eyes know a hundred tears, and the soul has a hundred sighs - Hafiz

I think it is safe to say that we delighted in one another. She used to laugh at my stories until she wept, and I tried to take her sound advice to heart.- Jane Hamilton

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal - Patricia Hampl

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit - Ina Hughs

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. - Aldous Huxley

That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst, remind you of your strengths when you feel weak. - Erica Jong

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. - John F. Kennedy

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a dream... that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. - Martin Luther King Jr.

The better part of one's life consists of one's friendships - Abraham Lincoln

Cynics are made, not born. - Karl Marx

Don't criticize what you don't understand. - Masonic saying

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle - Plato

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. - Marilyn Savant

One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world. - Hannah Senesh

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau

Twenty Years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. - Mark Twain

Courage is no the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it. - Mark Twain

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly - Unknown

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the other which opens for us. - Unknown

Ignorance is curable. Stupidity is not. - Unknown

A friend is one that knows us, but loves us anyway - Unknown

Judge someone not by their mistakes but rather how they react to them. - Bradly Wilkins