Character Quotes

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to flexible at all times.

Character consists of what you do on the third and forth tries.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

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

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

A man's character is his fate.

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.