42. Character

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches , and loving favour rather than silver and gold . Proverbs 22:1 KJV

Reputation is what folks think you are. Personality is what you seem to be. Character is what you really are. > Alfred Armand Montapert.

When God measures a man, he puts the tape around the heart, not around the head. > Author Unknown.

A man is what he thinks about all day long. > Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at. > Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece–by thought, choice, courage and determination. > H. Jackson Browne.

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. > Thomas B. Macauley.

Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny. > Charles Reade.

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions, and lost by one. > Lord Jeffrey.

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. > Martin Luther King.

Talents are the best nurtured in solitude; character is the best formed in the stormy billows of the world. > Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

See also Romans 5:3-5; 1 Corinthians 15:33-34.