Character Quotes

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Elbert Hubbard

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

Cicero

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Helen Keller

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

Abraham Lincoln

Moral courage and character go hand in hand .... a man of real character is consistently courageous, being imbued with a basic integrity and a firm sense of principle.

Martha Boaz

Characer is much easier kept than recovered.

Thomas Paine

Character, like a kettle, once mended, always requires repairs.

Unknown

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character to another.

Winston Churchill

Show class, have pride and display character.If you do, winning takes care of itself.

Paul "Bear" Bryant

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Abigail Van Buren

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?

Henry David Thoreau