Character Quote by John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his…

— James Mill

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

— Booker T. Washington

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

— Harry S. Truman

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

— James Allen

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

— Ayn Rand

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

— Confucius

Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think the character of a man is to establish something where no one else has ever done before.

— Reggie Miller

A man must be very inert to have no character at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— Abraham Lincoln

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

— George Bernard Shaw