“Character Quotes”….

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” ~ John Wooden

“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

“Character can not be developed in ease and quiet.  Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” ~ Helen Keller

“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” ~ James A. Michener

“Character development is the great, if not the sole, aim of education.” ~ O’Shea

“Character develops itself in the stream of like.” ~ Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Character is higher then intellect.  A great sol will be strong to live as well as think.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“Character is power.” ~ Booker T. Washington

“Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honestly choose what is right.” ~ Arthur Trudeau

“When men speak ill of you, live so as nobody may believe them.” ~ Plato

“Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all:  only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.” ~ Euripides

“Talents are best nurtured in lassitude;  character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.” ~ Goethe

“Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against other, to hide hurt feeling, and to forgive quickly.” ~ Lawrence G. Lovasik

“Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community;  character is what you have when you go away.” ~ William Hersey Davis

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

“The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be fount out.” ~ T.B. Macaulay