Quotes About Character

It is native personality, and that alone, that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals, or in any distinguished collection, with aplomb -and not culture, or any intellect whatever.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

Character is perfectly educated will.

Character is long-standing habit.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

Every one is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse.

Character is that which can do without success.

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got.

Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

A person's reputation is a mixture of what his friends, enemies, and relatives say behind his back.

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

The great hope of society is individual character.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.