26 Top Quotes About Character

Our character is basically a composite of our habits.
-Stephen Covey

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
-Theodore Roosevelt

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
-Charlie Chaplin

To measure the man, measure his heart.
-Malcolm Forbes

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
-Jean Paul

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
-Oscar Wilde

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
-Paul Newman

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
-Bruce Lee

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
-J. G. Holland

Character is simply habit long continued.
-Plutarch

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.
-John C. Maxwell

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
-Marva Collins

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.
-Lord Chesterfield

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.
-Derek Jeter

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.
-Emma Dunham Kelley Hawkins

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
-Arthur Freed

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
-Confucius

 A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.
-John G. Lake

 

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
-Confucius