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Quotes About Character

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
~ Denis Diderot
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
~ Lawrence Dale Bell
Dietrich would never do that
~ Marlene Dietrich
The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
A beautiful person is a person who is capable of being the best version of himself/herself, inside and out as often as possible.
~ Rita Zahara
We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.
~ Richard G. Scott
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
~ Alexander Pope
It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Your looks do not define who you are.
~ Bethany Hamilton
The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.
~ Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins
Virtue is its own reward.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.
~ Michael J. Fox
The only thing you can never change is your values.
~ Michael Johnson
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
~ Michel de Montaigne
You have to be careful of people who like to talk a big game but can't back it up.
~ Ray Lewis
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
~ William Ralph Inge
What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.
~ Zig Ziglar
Good values are easier caught than taught.
~ Zig Ziglar
Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.
~ C. S. Lewis
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
~ Henry James
What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
~ Henry Parry Liddon
Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time.
~ John C. Maxwell