Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Character.
It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.
Harry Howell
Character is the salesperson
George M. Adams
Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
James Thurber
Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.
Merikare
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.
Thomas Carlyle
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
John Holt
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Sir Winston Churchill
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
Seven Deadly SinsWealth without workPleasure without conscienceScience without humanityKnowledge without characterPolitics without principleCommerce without moralityWorship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
Mark Twain
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
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
L. Estrange
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing: I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have l
Abraham Lincoln
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
