Top 100 Character Inspirational Quotes
#1. A whole lot of good my IQ came when it came to judging his character.
DiAnn Mills
#2. You can speak with spiritual eloquence, pray in public, and maintain a holy appearance ... but it is your behavior that will reveal your true character.
Steve Maraboli
#3. Repetition is the mother of character and skill.
Rick Warren
#4. Things don't make me a person. Character does.
Jhinang
#5. The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.
Michel De Montaigne
#6. If an ordinary man can be tapped to be the Messiah...then perhaps any one of us is capable of bringing about the Redemption.
Helen Maryles Shankman
#7. It is in the character of very few people to honour a prosperous friend without envy, and these very few people tend to become best friends.
Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
#8. You're noble enough, Baudelaires. That's all we can ask for in this world.
Lemony Snicket
#10. Learning to trust God when He says "no" is a very important step in handling rejection. This is because God's character is not only seen in what He does, but in what He does not do.
Jamie Larbi
#11. Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.
John Leguizamo
#12. Father: an inspirational person; emulated, admired and much loved; strong character with exceptional patience and unrivalled wisdom; often referred to as a son's first hero and a daughter's first love.
Anonymous
#13. The central character is an incomplete package of yearning that takes the length of the novel to complete. Completion, though, is not to be confused with perfection.
Patricia Hickman
#14. Never fall for a person's image and status as the may serve as a false representation of character. Watch closely the character and you"ll know who a person really is.
Kemi Sogunle
#15. My dear Mrs Casaubon," said Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardour, "character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do."
"Then it may be rescued and healed," said Dorothea.
George Eliot
#16. Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
Oscar Wilde
#17. Great occasions often stimulate a person to do something great, but that tells nothing of his or her real character. Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty.
Abhijit Naskar
#18. We develop our whole character from our thoughts, actions, attentive observations, and from the resolute pursuit of our inspirational dreams.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#19. All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. One's character is determined not how she gets caught in the downpour of disappointment, but how she finds the hope to look for the rainbow.
Colette Freedman
#21. Thou shalt not forget that money is only money and not character or fame.
Steven J. Lee
#22. But how can they just decide that we're animals? They don't even know us," I said.
"We know us," said Mother. "They're wrong. And don't ever allow them to convince you otherwise. Do you understand?
Ruta Sepetys
#23. Size does not make a role model, character does.
LaQuisha Hall
#24. Character is perfectly educated will.
Novalis
#26. In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.
Hippolyte Taine
#28. To every bad there's a good and to every good there's a bad. And both are pertinent to the lessons of life, and the building of your character or individuality.
Aloy Ricketts
#29. Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions.
We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.
Azim Premji
#31. Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.
Cunningham Geikie
#33. Modern Education may make one intelligent but not wise. Wisdom comes from character, social consciousness, self awareness, human values, conscience that helps us know what is right and wrong and independent will that helps us to choose right over wrong.
Jeroninio Almeida
#34. Your vibes define your character.
Be the one for whom people demand,
When you know you are destined for greatness,
You feel incomplete until you succeed.
Dipika Agarwal
#35. Character builds on characters. Very few recognised them as a character, others should look for it until they get one.
Vikram Roy
#37. It's nice to be liked, but it's better to be respected.
Habeeb Akande
#38. The Republic can count on me to battle its enemies ... Offensive war suits the passionate character of the French, but it is the responsibility of the man in charge of leading them to prepare with caution and wisdom everything that leads to victory.
Tom Reiss
#40. Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in the process, etch within you the arcs of exceptional narrative.
Ashim Shanker
#41. I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.
Dave Dravecky
#42. I've never heard a eulogy about a person where they talk about the value of wealth and how much money the've left behind. They only talk about the character ,love, integrity, humour strength etc.
So why is it so important to some that they lose sight of everything else in life ?
Lou Silluzio
#43. Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Oswald Chambers
#44. The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#45. My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
Quentin Tarantino
#46. People are your responsibility and character is the hidden powers that cause the miracle people
Ikechukwu Joseph
#47. Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.
Theodore Parker
#48. Leader of Character: someone who uses influence to achieve a moral or ethical goal.
Dave Anderson
#49. The strength of a man is less of the man and much more of who and what backs the man.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#50. When we are depleted our giving is empty. Today I take a moment to recharge, fill up with love for my life and all of its character so that I may give from a place of overflowing.
Lisa Wimberger
#51. Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character, - but she always pays.
William George Jordan
#52. Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.
Roy Bennett
#53. Character is what is hidden deep, shows up in the worst of times, be it good or bad, and reflects the heart of a man.
Robin M. Bertram
#54. The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.
Joseph LeConte
#55. One of the most liberating things a person can do is to admit that he or she is human and is flawed.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#56. Keeping or holding on to a concept shows belief but building or adding to it shows confidence and depth of character.
Delma Pryce
#57. Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting?
LHandLG
#58. I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.
C. JoyBell C.
#59. Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer.
David McCullough Jr.
#60. There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.
Mark Miller
#61. Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. She had something more than material value ~ she had a soul, no money could buy.
Nikki Rowe
#63. To all the women I say, don't ask to be saved by anyone, "my brave baghinis" (tigresses). Remember, if you deem yourselves as sheeps, men will treat you as such, but if you deem yourselves as tigresses, then you are the ones who will shape humanity.
Abhijit Naskar
#64. In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
Nicholas Sparks
#65. Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.
Alan Sakowitz
#66. The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
Peter Kreeft
#67. When wealth is lost, little is lost. When health is lost, something is lost, but when character is lost ALL is lost!
Cheyenne Mitchell
#68. When you carry someone else's baggage, it's nearly impossible to get rid of your own. Drop it. Now.
Cathryn Louis
#69. The depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.
Frank E. Peretti
#70. I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.
Dennis Lehane
#71. Substance is like tree and smartness its shadow. The smartness is what we think it is and the substance is the real thing!
Utpal Vaishnav
#72. We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.
Roy Bennett
#73. Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world.
Michael R. French
#74. The features of character are carved out of adversity.
Rick Barnett
#75. Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.
Sathya Sai Baba
#76. Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
Margaret Chase Smith
#77. The definition of your life is you and your character. So define yourself in your own way.
Debasish Mridha
#78. If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
Stephen Covey
#79. True leadership is often the mantle of the meek, who are rarely are prepared for such responsibility; which builds character in those who embrace it.
M.J. Stoddard
#80. Money doesn't change you, it reveals you. Money is just an enabler, whatever a person chooses to do with it is a reflection of their character.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#82. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#83. What they say doesn't matter because it can be lies, but it's what they do that matters because it always speaks truth.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#84. Speak less and listen more.
Zai
#85. Judge not, lest ye be judged; or if thou wilt, then judge by the Splendor of his Character and the Munificence of his Deeds, rather than the Gender of his Lover.
Scylar Tyberius
#86. The test of a mans character is not the mistakes he makes but the way he responds to them.
William Moyers
#87. Knowing why you are is your purpose.
Knowing who you are is your style.
Knowing what you are is your character
Debasish Mridha
#88. The distinction of one person's character can be illustrated by
this word : attitude
Ency Bearis
#89. Pleasure and Pain participate equally in moulding character.
Abhijit Naskar
#92. Stories. Character. Dialouge. Entire worlds created on the page. Worlds that could sweep you away or frighten you, make you laugh or cry. Worlds that allowed you to escape to another country or time. Worlds built piece by piece of ink and punctuation.
Jamie Michaels
#93. Expansion of character is connected to expansion of destiny.
James Tarantin
#94. Character is how you treat people who can't do anything for you in return.
Integrity is how you act when you think nobody is looking.
Thea Nishimori
#96. 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
#97. Those who try and destroy another person's character with lies ... end up destroying themselves in the process.
Timothy Pina
#98. Honesty and integrity are the yardsticks by which we measure our intrinsic value.
Orly Wahba
#99. Success in business is important. Success as a human being with values, character, kindness, and love is much more important.
Debasish Mridha
#100. Of all people, children are the ones that really understand when there's a truth there for them - an emotional truth. The characters really have to work. Children, as an audience, are very inspirational for me.
Jan Brett
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