Character Quotes

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Integrity means that we are trustworthy and dependable, and our character is above reproach.

In character-building and in living the Christian life, concentration is important. The [person] who has a general interest in everything usually isn’t too good at anything.

One of the real tests of Christian character is to be found in the lives we live from day to day.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and so is our character.

A godlikeness of character is the Christian’s proper heritage in this earthly walk.

Trials and difficulties may assail the life of a believer, but they also have the ability to remold his character and banish from his life those impurities which might impair growth and service.

Consistency, constancy, and undeviating diligence to maintain Christian character are a must if the older generation is to command respect, or even a hearing, from the young.

A few years ago, honesty was the hallmark of a man of good character. But it’s been set aside for an “It’s all right if you don’t get caught” philosophy.

It is unfair to attribute virtues beyond a person’s true character.

...[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.- Lucullus (Act III, scene 1)

As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

God gave you a gift of 84, 600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Good wombs have borne bad sons."-- (Miranda, I:2)

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.

Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.

Character is what can do without success

What I took out of them was that character was measured by facing up to difficult situations and that a hero was a man who would not break even under the most trying circumstances.

...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly...

...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.

And if you don’t underestimate me, I won’t underestimate you.

It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells.

The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease.

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

only if we act greatly in meeting our responsibilities abroad will we remain a great nation, and only if we remain a great nation will we act greatly in meeting our challenges at home

You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.

Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by.

I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found.

He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal.

Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way.

When making the problem go away is more important than solving the problem leadership begins to fail. The easy way vs. The character way.

There is no index of character as sure as the voice.

The measure of your character and mental toughness is the space between what you are doing and what you could be doing

Put character and mental toughness before execution and you will get consistent execution.

The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.

At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.

Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.

He has not a single redeeming defect.

His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up