Character Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of character quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
– A.A. Milne

“The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.”
– Abigail Van Buren

“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
– Aeschylus

“Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.”
– Alan Armstrong

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”
– Albert Einstein

“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”
– Albert Einstein

“One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.”
– Albert Einstein

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
– Albert Einstein

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?”
– Alexis de Tocqueville

“When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’”
– Alfred Hitchcock

“There was a saying that a man’s true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.”
– Alison Goodman

“Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It’s the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. ”
– Ann Landers

“Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.”
– Ann Landers

“How true Daddy’s words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”
– Anne Frank

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”
– Anne Frank

“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
– Aristotle

“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger

“A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.”
– Arthur Conan Doyle

“By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.”
– Ashly Lorenzana

“Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.”
– Author Unknown

“Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.”
– Ayn Rand

“Love is the expression of one’s values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”
– Ayn Rand

“Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.”
– Billy Graham

“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”
– Billy Graham

“Choices determine character.”
– Brandon Mull

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
– Bruce Lee

“Whatever you are physically…male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy–all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but
– Cassandra Clare

“When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.”
– Cassandra Clare

“You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.”
– Cassandra Clare

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