Character Quotes

Fate and character are different names for the same idea.

~ Hermann Hesse

I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out.

~ Nancy E. Turner

Be very careful when you judge another human being. Do not measure anybody strictly based on the bad you see in them and ignore all the good. Be wary of any man who intentionally ignores another man's record of deeds or work history simply to impose their own agenda. Such a man's judgment lacks merit and should be disregarded immediately. Without a conscience, there is no truth in them.

~ Suzy Kassem

Horror is a situation, not a character, no matter how evil one may be.

~ Rachel Deering

To know the good from the bad, measure the heart. Actions reveal the true coloring of one's heart, not their intentions.

~ Suzy Kassem

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible, few actually know where it is possible.

~ Raheel Farooq

An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the dead options. Only then, that is, by the action of Will, good results in good and evil in evil.

~ Raheel Farooq

You think some are bad or evil or whatnot, but somewhere along the way they were someone's baby, suckling the teat like anybody. Then something puts a volt in 'em and they ain't the same no more.

~ Alan Heathcock

People which deserv support are people likeVsauce (A guy who I don't know how to describe... but as overall awesome character.)Rob Dyke (How he won't deserv one support or many?)... what he is doing is blowing mind it's about Anatomy of Murder and Serial KIllers files... that's crazy. And the best of all you can find a lot of information about many prisoners.

~ Deyth Banger

And in the echo of that gladness, horror blooms within me. In its own strange way, it's a horror as deep as any I've experienced so far. I've succeeded in taking another human hostage, in making him urinate on himself. I made a plan to torture someone, and then I carried it out, and it satisfied me to do so. As much hurt and hell as the Wolfman has caused, I don't want to be his judge and jury, his jailer and tormentor. I don't want to be that person. I want to be good. I don't want to fall into a big, black pit of darkness, because what if I can't get out?

~ Carolyn Lee Adams

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

~ Mikhail Lermontov

There is no such thing as a plain fact of murder. Murder springs, nine times out of ten, out of the character and circumstances of the murdered person. Because the victim was the kind of person he or she was, therefore was he or she murdered! Until we can understand fully and completely exactly what kind of a person [she] was, we shall not be able to see clearly exactly the kind of person who murdered her. From that spring the necessity of our questions.

~ Agatha Christie

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

~ Pascal Mercier

Your responsibility is to not question God’s actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God’s character.

~ Jim George

There's no need to tell me who you are, you're already showing me.

~ Steve Maraboli

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Character is not purchased with a dance in the street. It's expensive and hard to come by. Though it is the heir of disappointment, betrayal and frustration, it is not the inheritance that matters but what you do with it. No one ever developed their character by arranging their experiences in such a way that only ‘good’ things are allowed to happen.

~ Billy Marshall Stoneking

Believe and be so strong in virtues like character, instead of looking for miracles.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is never too late to show true character.

~ Bill Courtney

Character modification requires active participation in challenging new experiences, but without reflection upon our encounters in life and the purposeful alteration in our base philosophy new experiences alone will not result in core personality changes. Our thoughts become our habits, and our habits reveal our character. Only by thinking and acting differently will a person attain the quality of character that they seek.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

With every passing day, we add a page to our personal story, an illustrative script that casts our character shaped by an implacable external environment and fashioned by our supple state of inwardness.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn't do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself.

~ Pascal Mercier

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

~ David F. Wells

From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.

~ George F. Will

The measure of a man’s character may be the manner in which he treats the one who can do him no good, but the measure of his heart is the manner in which he loves the one who has hurt him. He who is unloving in his pain was never really loving in his happiness.

~ James Castleton

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

~ Shannon L. Alder

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

~ Stephen King

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

~ Paul Mccartney

Truth recognizes truth, just as a man with real talent is the first to recognize another with real talent. Likewise, superficiality attracts others with an artificial surface. Only the superficial applaud the superficial. A man of true substance rejects the superficial because he seeks only truth and depth. Based on this reasoning, you can easily measure the weight of any man's character just by observing who he admires.

~ Suzy Kassem

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Max always mumbles; not in a shy way, but rather as if he's telling you what it will cost to take out your worst enemy, or how much you'd have to pay to rig a horse race.

~ Scarlett Thomas

He who mocked and laughed at correction should blame nobody for his shame and doom.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Do have a mind of your own. This is not just a spiritual matter only, but one which concerns ordinary manliness. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Man is meant for good but designed for evil.

~ Raheel Farooq

A man without enemies is a man without character.

~ David Gandy

The few people who earned my respect are those who are predictable in their character but totally unpredictable the way they think!

~ Assegid Habtewold

Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.

~ Raheel Farooq