These character quotes will inspire you. Character, the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. Individuality, personality refers to the sum of the characteristics possessed by a person.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging g character quotes, character sayings, and character proverbs.
Best Character Quotes
- “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
- “It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.” ~ Aristotle
- “Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.” ~ J. C. Watts
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“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.” ~ Alfred Adler
- “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
- “Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.” ~ Billy Graham
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“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.” ~ Heraclitus
- “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.” ~ Charles de Gaulle
- “Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.” ~ Arthur Freed
- “Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.” ~ Thomas Paine
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“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” ~ Sam Ewing
- “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can’t change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing” ~ Jim Rohn
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.” ~ Booker T. Washington
- “Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.” ~ William Arthur Ward
- “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” ~ Norman Schwarzkopf
- “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut , Human character quotes
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“When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
- “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that… and I think I am fine.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
- “Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.” ~ Evan Esar
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“Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.” ~ Brian Tracy
- “Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.” ~ Alphonse Karr
- “Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.” ~ Helen Gahagan Douglas
- “If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.” ~ Andre Maurois
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“Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.” ~ James Allen
- “It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.” ~ Stephen Covey
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“Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
- “The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.” ~ Samuel Butler
- “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” ~ James A. Michener
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“While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.” ~ John Landis Mason
- “Character – Someday, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.” ~ Phillips Brooks , Character quotes life
- “Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.” ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
- “No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one’s best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one’s duty.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.” ~ Thomas B. Macaulay
- “I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” ~ George Washington
- “Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.” ~ Lawrence G. Lovasik
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“Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.” ~ Charles de Gaulle
- “Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
- “Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- “The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.” ~ William Ralph Inge
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“The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.” ~ Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins
- “I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.” ~ Walter Inglis Anderson
- “Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.” ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?” ~ Madame de Stael
- “Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.” ~ Solon
- “It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.” ~ Albert Camus
- “Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.” ~ John Adams
- “Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.” ~ Tryon Edwards
