Quotations about Character

“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”

Phillips Brooks

“When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.”

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”

Abraham Lincoln

“If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?”

Neale Donald Walsch

“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.”

John Lennon

“The best indices to a person's character are how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”

Abigail Van Buren

“Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.”

Aesop

“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”

James A. Michener