1. “I’m tired of defending my character. I am what I am. What you see is what you get.”
2. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
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3. “Sow a thought, reap an action. Sow an action, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.”
4. “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
5. “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
6. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless”
7. “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
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8. “Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.”
9. “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.”
10. “Before I go out on the field every day, I tell myself, ‘You are having fun, and you want to set a good example to those who are watching.”
11. “A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you will remember you. Carve your name on hearts, not marble.”
12. “Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
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13. “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
14. “As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.”
15. “Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.”
16. “It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.”
17. “Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for.”
18. “Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.”
19. “It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity.”
20. “The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.”
21. “The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.”
22. “Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”
23. “Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.”
24. “In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
25. “Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.”
26. “Writing from a character is really fun – sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else’s perspective.”
27. “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
28. “Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”
29. “The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
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30. “The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked.”
31. “Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.”
32. “It’s far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.”
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33. “A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
34. “Intelligence plus character–that is the true goal of education.”
35. “Sometimes it’s the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.”
36. “What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.”
37. “What a man’s mind can create, man’s character should control.”
38. “By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.”
39. “Over time, the lines blur sometimes. A little of you comes into the character.”
40. “Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.”
41. “Beware of people who constantly assert their integrity and honor. People of character don’t have to point it out.”
42. “If you were to look back at me as a school kid you’d see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.”
43. “The discipline of desire is the background of character.”
44. “Character is being, doing, and pursuing what is right simply because it is the wise thing to do.”
45. “If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.”
46. “Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear – good coaches do not.”
47. “It’s just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.”
48. “When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
49. “There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
50. “When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least.”
51. “Our character is determined by what we do if every restraint were removed.”
52. “Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.”
53. “A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
54. “Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.”
55. “We judge our own character by our best intentions and our most noble acts, but others will judge us by our last worst act.”
56. “If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character.”
57. “We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character.”
58. “Our characters are refined and tried by fire and when we have gone through the furnace, we emerge as pure gold and silver.”
59. “One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.”
60. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
61. “Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”
62. “Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.”
63. “Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.”
64. “There is no adversity that cannot be overcome by good character.”
65. “I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
66. “In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s, we do not accept them easily enough.”
67. “Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.”
68. “Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”
69. “You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.”
70. “One man practicing good sportsmanship is far better than 50 others preaching it.”
71. “People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.”
72. “Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.”
73. “Doing your best is more important than being the best.”
74. “Six essential qualities that are the key to success; Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.”
75. “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.”
76. “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
77. “Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss.”
78. “There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.”
79. “Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”
80. “In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters as they are.”
81. “A man has not more character than he can command in a crisis. His character comes from his practices of godliness and his closeness to the Lord.”
82. “Good moral character is the first essential in a man.”
83. “If we don’t invest now in building character in children we will surely invest more tomorrow in trying to repair adults.”
84. “Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.”
85. “Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don’t let someone make the sport unfun for you.”
86. “If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.”
87. “The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
88. “When someone blushes, doesn’t that mean ‘yes’?”
89. “Some are blessed with physical and mental facility, but none are more prized than the one who has developed true character.”
90. “Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
91. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
92. “Character is the result of two things; mental attitude and the way we spend our time.”
93. “No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.”
94. “I believe in doing the right things; that is my character and personality.”
95. “You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.”
96. “Your character defines who you are by the actions you take.”
97. “The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.”
