Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and the angels know of us.
Character Quotes
I admire men of character, and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates, and that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.
The measure of a man is way he bears up under misfortune.
They say best men are molded out of faults; and, for the most become much more the better for being a little bad. (Measure for Measure)
Well, then, if hawks have always had the same character, what makes you think men have changed theirs?
Character is what a man is in the dark. Character is simply habit long continued.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven. (All’s Well That Ends Well)
Character is power.
The fate of all extremes is such: men may be read, as well as books, too much.
