Character Quotes

Life is a series of experience, each of which makes us bigger even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford

"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."
Napoleon Hill

"Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what a reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character."
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Good manners like most values, must be demonstrated and lived in the home if they are to become a permanent part of the child's character."
Jacquie McTaggart

"Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character."
Vince Lombardi

"Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed."
Brian Tracy

"The way a man plays a game shows some of his character.
The way he loses shows all of it."
submitted by Lauren

"You can not dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
James A. Froude

"The qualities of a great man are 'vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character'."
Dwight Eisenhower

"We aim to develop physique, mentality and character in our students; but because the first two are menaces without the third, the greatest of these is character."
Joseph Dana Allen

"Be thankful for each new challenge,
because it will build your strength and character."
Author Unknown, from Be Thankful

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln

"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."
John Morley

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
Dale Carnegie

"Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work."
Orison Sweet Marden

"Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it."
Og Mandino

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
Henry David Thoreau

"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action."
Helen Gahagan Douglas

"I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity."
Robert M. Hensel

It's All About Character