Quotations on Character - Quotations and Proverbs on Character

Character is what you are in the dark. – Dwight L. Moody
Character is a long-standing habit. – Plutarch
Character is destiny. – Heraclitus
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. – Woodrow Wilson
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. – Alphonse Karr
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed is lost, something is the stormy billows of the world. - Goethe
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost. When character is lost, all is lost! – Anonymous
The end of all knowledge must be building of character. – M. K. Gandhi
Character, not brain, will count at the crucial moment. – Rabindranath Tagore
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s. – Jean Paul Richter
A man’s reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is. – Jack Miner
The discipline of desire is the background of character. – John Locke
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government. – Thomas C. Haliburton
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. – Donald Creighton
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. – Thomas B. Macaulay
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. – Alexander Pope
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence. – Abraham Lincoln
Character is a diamond which scratches every other stone. – Barfoe
Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. – Abraham Lincoln
Son an act, and you reap a habit, sow a habit and you reap a character, sow a character and you reap a destiny. - G. Boardman
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. – Seneca
There is no substitute for beauty of mind and strength of character. – J. Allen