Can these character quotes help you to achieve true strength of character? Meditating on the message contained in each of these character quotes can help you along the path of achieving the type of character that is necessary for successful people to have.
It is not enough to have people think you are an upright person because of the good deeds they see you perform each day…what about the things that they don't see? Many women are beaten each day by men who have upstanding characters outside of the home.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't you know of people who are successful and have good reputations but are not pleasant? These people usually are self centered and only care to act nicely to those who can help them achieve further success.
Unfortunately for us, society is filled with lots of these types of people and there will definitely be more because of greed. A greedy person will do whatever is needed to get what they want and if that means to portray a nice image of a good character to the world that is what they will do.
But sooner or later the world will see right through the act. No one is that good of a liar to keep that up for a long period of time unless that is who they really were. Character stems for our emotions, our attitude towards life and our moral standing as these character quotes show.
These are things that make us who we are. If you don’t have these treats already then don’t worry, you can certainly acquire them with lots of practice but one thing the character quotes here can’t help you with is erasing the damage that a poor character would have accumulated over the years.
You may not be able to change the past but you can definitely change what happens next and after reading these character quotes here you will have the a better understanding of what you need to do to make that change a glorious success.
While reading these character quotes try to shuffle through your mind and see if you and those you know fit the criteria needed for a healthy, honorable character. Where you fall short, try to make a serious effort to pick up the slack.
Character Quotes
Character is what a man is in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody
A man's character is his fate.
-- Heraclitus
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
-- Thomas Babington Macaulay
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
-- Billy Graham
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
-- Charles Spurgeon
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
-- John Wooden
Character is more important than talent.
-- Edwin Louis Cole
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
-- Cesar Chavez
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
-- James Allen
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
-- Thomas Paine
Even more character quotes to help you:
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
-- E. Stanley Jones
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-- Abraham Lincoln
I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.
--Brigham Young
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
-- Booker T. Washington
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
-- Epictetus
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
-- Stevie Wonder
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
-- Dwight L. Moody
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
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
-- Henry Clay
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
-- Ralph W. Sockman
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
-- Albert Einstein
Still need more character quotes to get the picture a bit better:
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
-- Napoleon Hill
Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
-- Xun Zi
Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.
-- Gary Ryan Blair
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
-- Oswald Chambers
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
-- Baruch Spinoza
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
-- Bruce Lee
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
-- Albert Einstein
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
-- Aristotle
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
-- Katharine Hepburn
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
-- Thomas Paine
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
-- Zig Ziglar
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
-- George Washington
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Could leave you without adding some more excellent character quotes:
The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
-- Walter Annenberg
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
-- Zig Ziglar
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
-- Charles de Gaulle
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
-- Mark Twain
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've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
-- Richard M. Nixon
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
-- William James
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
-- Charlie Chaplin
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
-- Oswald Chambers
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillips Brooks
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
-- Og Mandino
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
-- John Locke
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
-- Charlie Chaplin
Character is simply habit long continued.
-- Plutarch
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
-- Billy Graham
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
-- John Wooden
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
After reading all of these character quotes you must have picked up something that makes you see what is required of a woman or man to have an outstanding character. Put this into practice and you will see magnificent changes in other areas of your life as well.
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