Quotes About Character

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

Day by day, what you do is who you become.

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

A champion shows who he is by what he does.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

You are what you repeatedly do