Famous Inspirational Quotes About Being a Real Man of Character

• Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. – Bruce Lee
• Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. – Unknown
• Character is like a tree and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. – Abraham Lincoln
• The essential thing is not knowledge, but character. – Joseph Le Conte
• Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone. – Cyrus A. Bartol
• Character is like the foundation of a house – it is below the surface.
• Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.  – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.  – James D. Miles
• Everyone tries to define this thing called Character.  It’s not hard.  Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.  – Unknown
• Most people say that it’s the intellect which makes a great scientist.  They are wrong: it is character. – Albert Einstein.
• Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.  – Elbert Hubbard
• Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.  – Unknown

Quotes About Being a Real Man

Famous Inspirational Quotes About Being a Man of Character

• Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming. – Jim Rohn
• I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character! – Theodore Roosevelt
• 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
• Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.  – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
• The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity. – Roy L Smith
• Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be. – James Freeman Clarke
• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.  – Helen Keller
• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself. – Walter Anderson
• In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. – Albert Einstein
• Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. – Thomas Paine
• Sports do not build character. They reveal it. – Heywood Broun
• Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. – Robert E. Lee
• Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity. – Stephen Covey
• It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.  – Zig Ziglar
• The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. Anne Frank
• A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk. – Charlie Chaplin
• I don’t worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable. – Matt Dillon