Browse this great selection of character quotes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Alphonse Karr
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Aristotle
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
Henri Stendahl
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
Helen Keller
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.
Abraham Lincoln
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
James A Michener
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Cicero
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
George Washington
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Baron Thomas Babington Macauley
The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Author Unknown
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.