Character Quotes

Fateful encounters with a cruel world reveal our character. No human is immune from heartbreaking loss. Regardless of our socioeconomic status, eventually everybody shall suffer a grievous personal loss, a body blow that inflicts pain of inexpressible magnitude.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Survivor is not a label you choose for yourself.

~ Harry Smith

Our task is to take suffering in stride, not as if it is a pleasure (it isn’t), but in the knowledge that God will not let it overwhelm us and that He will use it, by His own supernatural alchemy, to three good ends, at least. 1) Our suffering produces character; 2) Our suffering glorifies God; 3) Suffering fulfills the law of the harvest (John 12:24), Rediscovering Holiness by J.I. Packer, pgs. 232-239.

~ J.i. Packer

The child will grow up and find out things for herself. She will know that I lied. She will be disappointed.That is what is called learning the truth. It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice in disappointment and it will not come so hard. In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

~ Betty Smith

Hope is a fruit of proven character.

~ John Eldredge

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply. God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater use in the Kingdom. You must pass the test first.

~ A.w. Tozer

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

~ Mark Miller

Be humble in your confidence yet courageous in your character.

~ Melanie Koulouris

Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.

~ Kale Burton

If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

~ Maya Angelou

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

~ Eiji Yoshikawa

The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A strong character does not resist evil, but uses their strength in building the good. They know that when the light is made strong, the darkness will disappear of itself.

~ Christian D. Larson

His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain faceless.Anonymous.

~ Simona Panova

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.

~ Dennis Lehane

It doesn't really matter how you feel about your character, it just matters what you do with it.

~ Kiera Cass

Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.

~ Joyce Rachelle

What would you tell her about me?”He did not just ask that.“You did not just ask that.” She chuckled.“I’m serious,” he smiled.“Very well, if you must know, I would say that you are arrogant and foolish, too handsome for your own good and far too cognizant of your own intellect. Unbending, unsympathetic, dogmatic, pig-headed—”“Handsome?” he interrupted, unable to keep the smile from his face. “And intelligent?”“Don’t forget arrogant.

~ Leigh Lavalle

Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.

~ Dan Groat

The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate the glories of the British Empire, that the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved ... The great novelists have brought us to see whatever they wish us to see through some character. Otherwise they would not be novelists, but poet, historians, or pamphleteers.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

An author is similar to an actor. They play many characters in their lives—photographer, nurse, dancer, doctor, writer, etc. As an author, you have to learn your craft, know each and every element to become that character you’re writing about to be able to live and breathe what they do.

~ Mischa Temaul

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

~ Billy Graham

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.

~ Billy Graham

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

~ Billy Graham

God never directs in a way contrary to His character. When the Scriptures tell us that He will direct our paths, we can be assured that when He is in control, no matter how thorny the path, He will not tell us to jump off a cliff.

~ Billy Graham

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person—the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments—is the true measure of lasting greatness.

~ Billy Graham

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

~ Billy Graham

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

~ Billy Graham

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.

~ Billy Graham

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.

~ Billy Graham

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.

~ Billy Graham

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

~ Billy Graham

In all of these centuries there has not been the slightest shadow of change in the nature of God or in His attitude toward sin.The Bible teaches from the beginning to the end that adultery and fornication are sin, and the attitude of churchmen does not alter its character.

~ Billy Graham

Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is acquainted with all that is misunderstood and misinterpreted by men, and we can safely leave our case in His hands. He will as surely vindicate the cause of those who put their trust in Him as He searched out the guilt of Achan. Those who are actuated by the spirit of Christ will possess that charity which suffers long and is kind.

~ Ellen G. White

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.

~ Maralee Mckee

It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it to enter. No one is strong enough or cunning enough to avert by word or deed the misfortune that is rooted in the iron laws of his character and his life.

~ Sándor Márai

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

~ Tim Mcgraw