Character Quotes

Little people do not wear well under either extremes of fortune.

When wealth is lost nothing is lost; when health is lost something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost!

When we can no longer blame things on liquor, or war’s reaction, we may begin to suspect that human nature itself is a little faulty.

Small people never learn to be indifferent; they either envy or pity.

The fastest way to lose what we call our good character is to lose our honesty.

Crows are never the whiter for washing themselves.

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

When you heard that a mountain was moved, believe it; but when you hear that someone changed his character do not believe it.

Character is a by – product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

If you make yourself into a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you.