Character Quotes

Hello and welcome to my character quotes. What exactly is character? I have absolutely no clue lol. On a serious note character is the essence of what we are in our lives, how we live our lives day by day. I deeply believe you can create and change your character as you see fit. The following character quotations are there to inspire the best character in you to come out.

• CHARACTER QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
  Eleanor Roosevelt


• Character, not circumstance, makes the person.
  Booker T. Washington


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


• No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson


• The way a man plays a game shows some of his character. The way he loses shows all of it.
  Author Unknown


• Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
  Albert Hubbard


• 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


• Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
  Joan Didion


• The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
  Isabelle Eberhardt


• 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


• 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 character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
  Author Unknown


• 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


• Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
  Elmer G. Letterman


• I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.
  Rita Mero


• The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
  Abigail Van Buren


• In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever... You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you can't buy courage and decency, you can't rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him... He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nonetheless, a "vision" of the future he wishes to create.. But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't have the character-- the courage and heart-- to see it through
  Peggy Noonan


• When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
  Japanese Proverb


• Character is simply habit long continued.
  Plutarch


• A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents
  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


• You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
  James A. Froude


• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
  Anne Frank


• Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
  Dale Carnegie


• You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
  Abraham Lincoln


• The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
  Leonardo da Vinci


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


• Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


• A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson


• With all the power that a President has, the most important thing to bear in mind is this: You must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the most important qualification the President of the United States can have.
  Richard Nixon


• Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
  Theodore Roosevelt


• Sow a thought, and you reap an act; 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


• Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
  Albert Einstein


• The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
  John W. Holt, Jr.


• Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
  Stephen Covey


• 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


• The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge-- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers.
  John Adams


• To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
  Mark Twain


• The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
  Maya Angelou


• An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
  Robert Baden-Powell

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