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.

• A man's character is his fate.

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