Character Quotes

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

"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves." Leonardo da Vinci

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

"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 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

"Character is simply habit long continued." Plutarch

"I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person." Rita Mero