Mark Hopkins Quotes

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

People are fascinating. They're so unique and I think what's more fascinating is the reason behind the physical characteristic, the enigma, that's where the gold dust is.

I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

There is more than just words to define a person.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.

Personality, too, is destiny.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.