Quotes About Character

Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

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

Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?

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

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you'll be the 10th loser.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

Always remember, actions speak louder than words. No one's perfect, but we can all strive to be better people.

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