All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
Christian Nevell Bovee – Character
Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Elbert Hubbard – Character
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
James Russell Lowell – Reputation
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Character and force
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas B. Macaulay – Character
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
Henry David Thoreau – Character of invidduals
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 – Character
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Orison Swett Marden – Character
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Opinion & character
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote on Character
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden – Character & Reputation
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 – Character & Honor
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Character
Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.
