Character Quotes

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

~ Stephen R. Covey

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

~ Charles W. Chesnutt

The boundaries of this world are forever shifting – from day to night, joy to sorrow, love to hate, and from life itself to death; and who can say at what moment we may suddenly cross over the border, from one state of existence to another, like heat applied to some flammable substance? I have been given my own ever-changing margins, across which I move, continually and hungrily, like a migrating animal. Now civilized, now untamed; now responsive to decency and human concern, now viciously attuned to the darkest of desires.

~ Michael Cox

If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.

~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

Change is constant, but no amount of change will turn the attitude of vulture to that of eagle.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches she waits she learns, and in the second she blinks, she changes her mind just like that.

~ Anthony Liccione

Enlightenment – whether defined as spiritual awakening, liberation, or other form of illumination and attentiveness – requires inner transformation brokered by study of our limitations and application of a welcoming spirit of conscious appreciation. Self-knowledge commences by looking for the sacred light of awareness essential to spawn profound change in a person’s character.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Your good character and attitude should be your message to the world.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Love and Hate are two of the most used, abused, and misused words of mankind.

~ Tiffany Winfree

The world is changing and you’re only just becoming accustomed to it. You’re changing, I suppose. You’ve changed since I’ve known you.’‘How?’‘You’ve come more alive.

~ Sara Sheridan

So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade.What other surprises was she concealing?

~ Tessa Dare

Her beauty is laced in her strength and interwoven through her flaws. She embodies perfection.

~ Kierra C.t. Banks

A beautiful woman is one with a beautiful heart. She may be covered with mud or sores but only her foot fit the glass slipper.

~ Omoakhuana Anthonia

Character. Intelligence. Strength. Style. That makes beauty.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Perhaps not everything happens for a reason. That is, until you make it so; because for everything there is a season, which can, in fact, become beautiful.

~ Criss Jami

Beautiful writing is more than pretty prose. It creates resonance in readers’ minds with parallels, reversals, and symbols. It conjures a story world that is unique, highly detailed, and brought alive by the characters that dwell there. It offers moments of breath-catching surprise, heart-gripping insight, revelation, and self-understanding. It engages the reader’s mind with an urgent point, which we might call theme.

~ Donald Maass

A compliment about one’s nature is more important because a person has to choose how to behave, whilst a compliment about one’s appearance doesn’t mean overly much because there is no choice involved there.

~ Julie Garwood

Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of).

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Beauty without a character is a waste.

~ Luffina Lourduraj

No amount of organization and time management will compensate for a lack of Christian character, not when it comes to this great calling of glory through good—bringing glory to God by doing good to others.

~ Tim Challies

Have you got any soul? a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.

~ Nick Hornby

If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.

~ Shannon L. Alder

And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed again before one could fathom the strange depth partially disclosed; that something which used to make me fear and shrink, as if I had been wandering amongst volcanic-looking hills, and had suddenly felt the ground quiver, and seen it gape: that something, I, at intervals, beheld still; and with throbbing heart, but not with palsied nerves. Instead of wishing to shun, I longed only to dare --- to divine it; and I thought Miss Ingram happy, because one day she might look into the abyss at her leisure, explore its secrets and analyse their nature.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You as a soul you are alive, you as an actor - dead, as a character - dead... That's life, like it or not, it's not my problem!

~ Deyth Banger

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we did and who we were are just dregs compared to who we are now and how we act when the sword is coming down.

~ Rachel Aaron

The deepest-lying and most pervasive part of character is disposition: it accompanies us everywhere, and shows itself in all we do. It is the attitude of the soul toward life, the way in which we accept our situation and our daily experiences. On the inner side it gives color and tone to our own conscious life: on the outer side it pervades and modifies our conduct toward others and our reactions to events. A good disposition is indispensable to good character, though of course not all of character; without it one cannot hope for perfection; even with it one may fail through lack of higher elements. It is a sort of foundation layer.

~ Edward O. Sisson

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

~ Albert Schweitzer

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

~ Orrin Woodward

Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.

~ Alan Sakowitz

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

~ Norman Schwarzkopf

If you don’t know what you value in life, then you won’t be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Love for others is the foundation of leadership.Simplicity is the language of leadership.Authenticity is the true character of leadership.

~ Farshad Asl

You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Ballot papers don’t determine who leads; they determine who takes which position. As to whether that person occupying the position will lead or will manipulate, character must come to prove it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor