Character Quotes And Sayings

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“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
– George Washington

“The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.”
– George Washington

“You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others… In this world so filled with problems, so constantly threatened by dark and evil challenges, you can and must rise above mediocrity, above indifference. You can become involved and speak with a strong voice for that which is right.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Sometimes we fight who we are, struggling against ourselves and our natures. But we must learn to accept who we are and appreciate who we become. We must love ourselves for what and who we are, and believe in our talents.”
– Harley King

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
– Harper Lee

“Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures – character.”
– Harry S. Truman

“A person however learned and qualified in his life‘s work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.”
– Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
– Helen Keller

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
– Helen Keller

“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”
– Henry Ford

“Character is destiny”
– Heraclitus

“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

“It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.”
– Hermann Hesse

“In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.”
– Hilari Bell

“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.”
– Horace Greeley

“At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character.”
– Howard W. Hunter

“Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.”
– J. C. Watts

“Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.
– J.K. Rowling

“Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.”
– Jack London

“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”
– Jacqueline Bisset

“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
– James A. Michener

“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”
– James Allen

“All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.”
– James F. Cooper

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.”
– Jane Austen

“Conspiracy theorists like to claim NASA’s moon landing was faked. Well of course it was! But the biggest conspiracy of all is the Columbus landed in the new world in the late 15th century. There is no new world. It simply doesn’t exist. And Amerigo Vespucci? He was a character out of Walt Disney’s diary.?”
– Jarod Kintz

“You can tell a lot about a person’s character by how they do life’s menial tasks. For example, I saw my neighbor washing dishes, and I could immediately tell that he was an adulterer by the way my wife’s naked body glistened through his kitchen window.”
– Jarod Kintz

“If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.”
– Jerry Garcia

“A man’s magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man’s character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. I was not a murderer. I was not like Victor Sells. I was Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. I was a wizard. Wizards control their power. They don’t let it control them. And wizards don’t use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy.”
– Jim Butcher

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