Quotations about Character

“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

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”

John Wooden

“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is a confession of character.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no need to boast of your accomplishments and what you can do. A great man is known. He needs no introduction.”

Unknown

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.”

Unknown

“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”

John Wooden

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.”

Charles A. Cerami