James Anthony Froude Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Human improvement is from within outward.

  James Anthony Froude

  Character, Improvement, Humans

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.378, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

  James Anthony Froude

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.4

• Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

  James Anthony Froude

  Sports, Honesty, Integrity

  Oceana ch. 5 (1886)

• English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.

  James Anthony Froude

  Character, Thinking, Self

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.446

• Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

  James Anthony Froude

  Courage, Character, Hands

  James Anthony Froude (1867). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.394

• If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

  James Anthony Froude

  Dream, Book, Character

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.4

• Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.

  James Anthony Froude

  Character, Our Thoughts

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.342

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