Character Quotes

The way you handle your problems shows your character.

~ Kishore Bansal

For it is often the hardest tasks that build the most character.

~ Jody Hedlund

Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character.

~ Orrin Woodward

The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

The sad reality of Mankind: Faith is the currency people trade in, through their ego and selfish ways.

~ Unarine Ramaru

You can tell a lot about a man's character by how he behaves when given anonymity..

~ Dinesh Kumar Biran

...you have to believe in its principles. Anything is possible, as long as it's for the good of the world. Make the exception. Live exceptionally. And if you can't do that, maybe we should consider whether you're right for the project. Think about it, then let's talk tomorrow.

~ Amy Tan

Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance.

~ Unarine Ramaru

It is with words that my heart sings, with the substance of integrity my character soars and without regret I look back smiling ~bns

~ Bluenscottish

There's never any telling what you'll say or do next, except that it's bound to be something astonishing. By God, sir, you are a character.

~ John Huston

You must be prepared to sacrifice your self-love to the cause, you must be ready to treat the cause as if it is life itself.

~ Auliq Ice

Even your sweetest character has claws, no matter how well they may be retracted and hidden (hidden even from herself).

~ Eric Maisel Ph.d.

Characters begin as your children and become your teachers.

~ Chloe Thurlow

People like you are the reason this album needed to be written in the first place. When you’ve got your salary, and your cosy little ivory tower, you’re dead happy to spout off about artistic integrity and us getting there together. But the minute you’re asked to back your promises up with some strength of character, you come apart. You say you love good music, but you can’t listen to it that carefully if you treat people like this.

~ Guy Mankowski

You can never go wrong by doing what’s right.

~ Paul T. Clark

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?

~ Django Wexler

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.

~ Plato

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.

~ Claire Tomalin

Never fall for a person's image and status as the may serve as a false representation of character. Watch closely the character and youll know who a person really is.

~ Kemi Sogunle

The truth is that circumstances had done much to cultivate in Mrs. Tristram a marked tendency to irony. Her taste on many points differed from that of her husband, and though she made frequent concessions it must be confessed that her concessions were not always graceful. They were founded upon a vague project she had of some day doing something very positive, something a trifle passionate. What she meant to do she could by no means have told you; but meanwhile, nevertheless, she was buying a good conscience, by installments.

~ Henry James

A man's integrity isn't found in what he does for others, but how he feels about it after it's done.

~ Mrfluffertootle

You have to be tough and stand your ground.

~ Dan Welch

My characters will happily march off a cliff if it is in them to do so, but may the gods help me if I write that the character is an alcoholic when they are not. They will fight me at every turn and it is their domain. A writer cannot win against a stubborn character.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

The real dawah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.

~ Nouman Ali Khan

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

~ Heraclitus

All of these people had character. None of them thought they were special people, born with the right to win. They were people who worked hard, who learned how to keep their focus under pressure, and who stretched beyond their ordinary abilities when they had to.

~ Carol S. Dweck

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.

~ William James Moore

You have to push through every difficulty to have a breakthrough.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As the caterpillar undergoes transformation within the cocoon before emerging as a butterfly; likewise, life experiences shape character.

~ Lorna Jackie Wilson

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.

~ Thomas Hughes

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.

~ Tom Clancy

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.

~ William James Moore

The politeness which she had been brought up to practice as a duty made it impossible for her to escape; while the want of that higher species of self-command, that just consideration of others, that knowledge of her own heart, that principle of right which had not formed any essential part of her education, made her miserable under it.

~ Jane Austen

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valenced action, whether right or wrong, affecting our characters, the people who we are.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

Oh, mercy, there is nothing monstrously ugly about you. Ruth may be unpleasing, but you are merely plain. If anything, it's my beauty that's monstrous, for it sweeps away any other aspect of my character.

~ Gregory Maguire

Virtues are the internal qualities that allow us to be our best selves and enable us to lead complete and fulfilling lives.

~ Jonathan V. Last

A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

~ Debasish Mridha

When I write, I see the character inside out, not outside in.

~ Debasish Mridha