Character Quotes and Sayings


Character, not circumstance, makes the person.
Booker T. Washington

Character is what you are in the dark.
Dwight L. Moody

Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.
John Quincy Adams

What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.
Attributed to Thomas Edison

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence: I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
Idries Shah

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein

Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Goethe

One can acquire everything in solitude — except character.
Henri Stendahl

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
Aristotle

To exercise good character daily is to be morally fit for life.
Karen Hartz

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he’s born.
William R. Inge

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence.
Abraham Lincoln

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece by thought, choice, courage and determination.
John Luther

Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
Shaquille ONeal

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Anonymous

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

Character is that which can do without success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Henry James

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard

Character is like the foundation of a house - it is below the surface.
Anonymous

A man’s reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.
Anonymous

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt

If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character.
Paul Newman

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau

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    Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.
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    In life it doesn’t matter how many times you fall. What matters most is how many times you get up. Because mistakes build character and character takes you places money can’t.
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    Your true character is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do nothing for you.
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    People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
    Eleanor Roosevelt

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    Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
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