Character Quotes.

Character quotes and sayings.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. - Alphonse Karr

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which had not been obvious to the superficial observer. - Hesketh Pearson

A character is a completely fashioned will. - Novalis

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is a confession of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I admire men of character, and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates, and that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is. - Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the housetops. - Oscar Wilde

Character is much easier kept than recovered. - Thomas Paine

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. - George Washington

If you hear that a mountain has moved, believe; but if you hear tat a man has changed his character, believe it not. - Mohammedan Proverb

A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is. - Jack Miner

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. - David Lloyd George

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. - Billy Graham

Daily objectives are the best indicators of character. - Zig Ziglar

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. - Christian Nevell Bovee

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have often thought that the best way define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: "This is the real me!" - William James

Character gets you out of bed; commitment moves you to action. Faith, hope and discipline enable you to follow through to completion. - Zig Ziglar

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war. Character is a habit. The daily choice of right and wrong. It is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed in war. - General Sir James Glover

Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for. - Anonymous

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with those persons whose knowledge of the world is of such sort that it results in extreme distrust of men. - Joseph Farrell

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. - John Wooden

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger; for the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grief's we endure help us in our marching onward. - Henry Ford

A sound body is good; a sound mind is better; but a strong and clean character is better than either. - Theodore Roosevelt

When people make a decision (either consciously or unconsciously) to follow your leadership, they do it primarily because of one of two things: your character or your skills. - Chris Widener

With a character both proud and timid, one never amounts to anything. - Joseph Roux

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have life itself. - Walter Anderson

The foundation of leadership is character. - General Alexander M. Patch

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. - Sir Winston Churchill

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