Famous Quotes about Character (223 Quotations)

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Integrity has no need of rules.

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate — to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.