Character Quotes

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost! -Anonymous

Snarling at other folks is not the best way of showing the superior quality of your own character. -Anonymous

Characters are achieved-not received. They grow out of the substance of a man's soul. -Anonymous

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. -Aristotle

Character is like bells, which ring out sweet notes, and which, when touched-accidentally even-resound with sweet music. -Brooks

Grandeur of character lies in force of soul-that is, in the force of thought, moral principles, and love; and this may be found in the humblest conditions of life. -Channing

You must look into people as well as at them. -Chesterfield

The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, and to be a party to nothing underhand or mysterious. -Dickens

Strength of character may be acquired at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. --Henry Drummond

Character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. -Emerson

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

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life. -Geikie

There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks. -- David Lloyd George

Fame is vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character. -Greeley

Every man has three characters -that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. -Karr

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. -Macaulay

Be good at the depths of you, and you will discover that those who surround you will be good even to the same depths. Therein lies a force that has no name; a spiritual rivalry that has no resistance. -Maeterlinck

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. -Eleanor Roosevelt

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. -Seneca

To be worth anything character must be capable of standing firm upon its feet in the world of daily work, temptation and trial; and able to bear the wear and tear of actual life. Cloistered virtues do not count for much. - Smiles

Not education but character is man's greatest need and man's greatest safeguard. - Spencer

Source: Power BibleCD 5.2, Quotes