Character Quotes
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.John Wooden
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.Elmer G. Letterman
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Kelle
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.Rose Dorothy Freeman
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.Tryon Edwards
Character is what you are when no one is looking.Unknown
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.Herbert Mitgang
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.Johann von Goethe
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.Marquis de Sade
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.Phillips Brooks
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.Oscar Levant
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.Frances E. Willard
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.I Ching
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.Orison Swett Marden
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.Anon.
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.David Seabury
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.Horace Mann
What makes a good follower The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.Warren Bennis
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.Abraham Lincoln
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.Patrick Overton
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.Woodrow Wilson
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Character is what you are in the dark.American Prove
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.Janet Jackson
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Chesterfield
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - Putting together all their yesterdays - And averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - It is worse than a large family - He is the silent poor indeed.Henry David Thoreau
