List of Famous Character Quotes in English with Images

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

- Character Quote by Francis Thompson Download or Share

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

- Character Quote by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Download or Share

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

- Character Quote by Hermann Hesse Download or Share

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

- Character Quote by Isabelle Eberhardt Download or Share

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

- Character Quote by James A. Froude Download or Share

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

- Character Quote by Japanese Proverb Download or Share

Character is like a tree and reputatation like its shadow.  The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

- Character quote by Abraham Lincoln Download or Share

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

- John Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Download or Share

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. 

- Character quote by Elbert Hubbard

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. 

- Character quote by Elbert Hubbard Download or Share

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

- Character Quote by Elmer G. Letterman

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

- Character Quote by Elmer G. Letterman Download or Share

A man's character is his fate.

- Character Quote by Heraclitus

A man's character is his fate.

- Character Quote by Heraclitus Download or Share

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

 - Joan Didion Quotes

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

- Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

- Marie Henri Beyle Quotes

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident.  But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very  different: it is character.

- Marie Leneru Quotes

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

- Menander Quotes

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

- Nathaniel Emmons Quotes

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

- Oscar Levant Quotes

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

- Ronald Regan Quotes

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some don't turn up at all.

- Seneca Quotes

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

- Solon Quotes

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

- Abraham Lincoln Quotes

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously.  This is how character is built.

- Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both.  And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

- Elihu Burritt Quotes

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

- Confucius Quotes

Our character… is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

- Character Quote by George Santayana

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

- W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character.  He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better.  The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

- Cicero Quotes

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trail and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

- Helen Keller Quotes

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not.  I think: Be civil.  Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings.  There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it.  Be kind.

- Richard Greenberg Quotes

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character.  The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

- William Carleton Quotes