Character Quotes

Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now

Ronald Reagan

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

Oscar Wilde

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

E. M. Bounds

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Elbert Hubbard

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Walt Whitman

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

Bo Bennett, Year to Success

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Jacques Maritain

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Orison Swett Marden

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Henry Van Dyke

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

John M. Thomas

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Isiah Thomas

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

Neil Gaiman

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Johann von Goethe

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Johann von Goethe

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Johann von Goethe

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann von Goethe

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Johann von Goethe

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Marva Collins