Character Quotes

131 quotations about Character
A man's character is his guardian divinity.
Heraclitus · Character
Character is our destiny.
Heraclitus · Character
Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill · Character
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
Horace · Character
It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.
Harry Howell · Character
Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Elbert Hubbard · Character
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
David Hume · Character
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal · Character
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
Grenville Kleiser · Character
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld · Character
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Johann Kaspar Lavater · Character
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
Johann Kaspar Lavater · Character
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant · Character
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg C. Lichtenberg · Character
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Rush Limbaugh · Character
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln · Character
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Character
They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
James Russell Lowell · Character
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
Sir John Lubbock · Character
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas B. Macaulay · Character
It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
Horace Mann · Character
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
John L. Mason · Character
Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.
Merikare · Character
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James A. Michener · Character
A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.
Jack Miner · Character

Authors on Character

Lyman Abbott Aeschylus African Proverb Henri Frederic Amiel St. Thomas Aquinas Aristotle Fred Astaire John Atkinson Decimus Magnus Ausonius Faith Baldwin Bible Jacqueline Bisset Napoleon Bonaparte Christian Nevell Bovee Les Brown Albert Camus Oswald Chambers Lord Chesterfield Chinese Proverb Marva Collins