Welcome to our latest blog post, “50+ Character Quotes About Building Great Character“! In today’s world, it’s more important than ever to cultivate strong, virtuous character traits in ourselves and those around us.
This compilation of inspiring quotes serves as a testament to the power and significance of character development. Spanning centuries and featuring wisdom from some of the most influential thinkers, leaders, and philosophers, these quotes will inspire you to grow and strengthen your own moral fibre.
So, grab a cup of your favourite beverage, settle into your favourite reading nook, and prepare to embark on a journey that will challenge, uplift, and ultimately transform the way you perceive character building.
Character Quotes
What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do. – John Ruskin
Another man’s soul is darkness. – Russian proverb
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. – Josiah Quincy
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter. – Henry Fielding
Quotes about character
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. – John Milton
Our lives teach us who we are. – Salman Rushdie
Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another. – Jean Paul Richter
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe. – Winston Churchill
Good character quotes
If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character. – Paul Newman
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. – Anna Eleanor Roosevelot
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. – Winston Churchill
Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders…Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest. – Dale Carnegie
Quotes about character and integrity
The time is always right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. – Oprah Winfrey
You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jelly beans. – Ronald Wilson Reagan
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. – Leonardo da Vinci
Quotes about good character
A persons character is but half formed until after wedlock. – C. Simmons
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. – James D. Miles
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. – Theodore Roosevelt
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln
Quotes on character development
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited. – Robert Freeman
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. – Helen Adams Keller
Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for. – Robert Quillen
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. – John Dewey
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he’s born. – William R. Inge
Respect character quotes
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. – Albert Einstein
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us man hood or womanhood fibre. – Dr. Frank Crane
You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jelly beans. – Ronald Reagan
Reputation is the shell a man discards when he leaves life for immortality. His character he takes with him. – Anonymous
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures. – Horace Greeley
Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest. – Mark Twain
Character of a person quotes
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. – Abraham Lincoln
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. – Alphonse Karr
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. – Sir Winston Churchill
Character is a subtle thing. Its sources are obscure, its roots delicate and invisible. We know it when we see it and it always commands our admiration, and the absence of it our pity; but it is largely a matter of will. – Leo J. Muir
If it ever came to a choice between compromising my moral principles and the performance of my duties, I know I’d go with my moral principles. – Anonymous
Character quotes for students
Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have. – Jean-Paul Sartre
In thy face I see The map of honour, truth, and loyalty. – William Shakespeare
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. – Charles Reade
Character is destiny. – Heraclitus
Famous quotes on character
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand. – Baruch Spinoza
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. – Joseph Hall
Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs? – Margaret Titzel
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own. – Herbert Samuel
Inspirational quotes on character
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. – Abraham Lincoln
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. – Arthur Schopenhauerv
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character. – R.C. Samsel
