Character Quotes | Inspiring Sayings on Personal Values

Beauty is not an evidence of good character.

Our true character is that person we become when no one is watching.

Character is like pregnancy, it cannot be hidden.

Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that… and I think I am fine.
– Margaret Thatcher

A man with a lot of knowledge and no character is a dangerous man.

Live in such a way that if anyone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it.

If you want to know the real character of a person, give him power and see what he does.

Respectable character is developed by consistency in self discipline and self control.
– Anil Kumar Sinha

Education and knowledge – without a positive character – do not guarantee a better future.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Reputation is made in a moment. Character is built in a lifetime.

To discipline and improve your character is to ensure a a better future, and to pamper your character is to invite a bleak future.
– Dr T.P.Chia

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.
– Charlie Chaplin

Two things define your personality, the way you manage things when you have nothing, and the way you behave when you have everything.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
– John Wooden

Action makes a great statement about the character of a person.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good looks fade but a good heart keeps you beautiful forever.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Characterize people by their actions and you will never be fooled by their words.

You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
– Paul McCartney

Don’t change your attitude and character for anyone, the one who wants you, will not change you.
– P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

Your character is the master of your destiny. The combined weight of a steadfast character, positive values and human strengths contributes to a great destiny. The influence of a defective character, negative values and human weaknesses leads to a messy destiny.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
– C.S. Lewis

There is a culture for everything. Culture of win, culture of lose, lie, patience, respect, relationships, stupid, smart, care, fight, speak, think, organizing, planing, cheating, love, hate, cheap. So and so and so. You choose your cultures to build your personality and yourself. So start with culture of smart choices.

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
– Japanese Proverb

Thoughts lead on to purposes;
Purposes go forth in action;
Actions form habits;
Habits decide character;
And character fixes our destiny.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
– Abraham Lincoln

Emotions comes to an end, but character keeps a man going.

It is not our character but our own actions that determines the outcome of things.

If you have a positive character, you are more equipped to guide and control your future.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
– John Wooden

Character is doing what you don’t want to do but know you should do.
– Joyce Meyer

A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that can define him instantly and completely.

Your character is the master of your destiny. Your destiny will smile if you are in control of a positive character. Your destiny will frown if you are ruled by a negative character.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
– Abraham Lincoln

When beauty is lost nothing is lost, when wealth is lost something is lost but when character is lost everything is lost--.

Integrity is the heart of character, don’t lose it.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
– Bruce Lee

No one will question your integrity if your integrity is not questionable.
– Nathaniel Bronner Jr

A man’s reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
– Albert Einstein

Some people use words to reflect who they want to be, but actions always show who they really are.

If you have a positive character, you are likely to believe in work ethics, responsibility, sell- esteem, determination, perseverance, prudence, self- restraint, and emotional discipline.
– Dr T.P.Chia

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

When your beauty fades,
You are left with character,
But if you don’t have a good character,
Then you are all alone.

If you have a negative character, you are likely to fall victim to laziness, irresponsibility, low self- esteem, irresolution. Quitting- mindedness, recklessness, compulsion and emotional impulsiveness.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Reputation is how others perceive you whereas character is what you actually are and a man’s character is best known by the things he does when he knows he would not be caught or seen by anyone.

Be the type of person you want to meet.

Adversity doesn’t build your character. Adversity reveals your character.

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.
– Henry H. Saunderson

Your character is your inner self. Your character is developed and built through life experience. Your character can make your life successful or unsuccessful.
– Dr T.P.Chia

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
– Thomas Jefferson

Your character is the son of your values and habits. You are the teacher of your character. Good values and habits contributor to a positive character. Bad values and habits leads to a negative character. If you want to have a better life, you need to discipline and control your character.
– Dr T.P.Chia

To discipline your character is to ensure a bright destiny. To pamper your character is to invite a bleak destiny.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Never judge any person by his answers or questions but by his nature of character solely.
– Anuj Somany

Positive thoughts and choices, as well as courage and determination, build a good character.
– Dr T.P.Chia

A rich man has no need of character.
– Yiddish Proverb

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truthfulness is the main element of character.
– Brian Tracy

If you are victimized by a negative character, which is characterized by laziness, irresponsibility, low self-esteem, irresolution and wavering, you will lose control of your future.
– Dr T.P.Chia

We are defined by our actions toward others not others’ actions toward us.

Beauty has a lot to do with character.
– Kevyn Aucoin

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

A steadfast character is a competitor for success, a defective character is a candidate for failure.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Your beliefs don’t make you a better person, your behavior does.

If you are determined not to let your character make you an inferior person, or stop you from being an achieving person, fight your negative values and habits tooth and nail, it is possible for you to win the battle.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
– Yousuf Karsh

Go on a journey of self- discovery – examine your values, attitudes, habits and behaviors, and find out your strengths and weaknesses.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
– Elbert Hubbard

A positive character is your best friend. Alcohol and drug addiction is your worst friend.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Character develops itself in the stream of life.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you have a positive character, you are likely to believe in work ethic, responsibility, self-esteem, commitment and perseverance – which are the foundation of a good future.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.
– Terry Pratchett

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
– Arthur Schopenhauer

To discipline your character is to insure a bright destiny. To pamper your character is to invite a bleak destiny.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Character is much easier kept than recovered.
– Thomas Paine

Your character can be improved. If you want to improve your life, you need to change yourself by improving your character.
– Dr T.P.Chia

The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when the argue in full swing, they reveal their true character.
– Anne Frank

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it’s hard.
– Nicholas Sparks

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
– John Wooden

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
– Dwight Lyman Moody

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
– Phillips Brooks

Character is like pregnancy, it will by all means manifest.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.
– C.S. Lewis

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
– George Orwell

A choice made often enough becomes a habit. And a habit reaps a personality and a personality reaps a character and a character reaps a destiny.

The people whom he admires honestly and the products/pictures that he adores genuinely, together defines what character he is as a person and determines the human values he cherishes in his life.

In short term games, skills are more important than character. In long term games, character dominates.
– Johnny Uzan

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.
– Kate Morton

Be the man you would want your daughter to bring home.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
– Lord Chesterfield

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
– Henry David Thoreau

The best among you are those who have the best manners and best character.

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

Character is a word that seems to define almost all human activity and then some
– Richard Reeves

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
– Stendhal

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
– Elbert Hubbard

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.
– Erin McCarthy

A man’s character may be judged by how he gives you response to the same question asked by you the third time.

The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.
– Charles A. Beard

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.
– Swami Vivekananda

Characters are not reviewed by action, actions can be planned. Characters are reviewed by reaction. Reactions are spontaneous it shows the clear picture of what someone has in mind.

The only fear that builds character, is the fear of God.
– Anthony Liccione

Character is simply habit long continued.
– Plato

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
– Anne Frank

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
– Sachin Tendulkar

Agar kisi ko jaan se maar dena kanoonan jurm hai … toh kisi ke charitra ki hatya karna bhi ek sangeen jurm se kam nahi
(If killing someone is a crime and against the law … then to kill someone’s character is also nothing less than a serious crime)
Movie: Mera Pati Sirf Mera Hai
Star: Anupam Kher

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously and have somebody find out.
– Oscar Wilde

Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
– Lord Chesterfield

When someone helps, you try to help him, it is a kind of character of reciprocal manner, but when someone harms you and you try to help him is a character of merit.

Goodness stems from the light within you. Evil stems from the darkness that surrounds you. You get to choose which magnetic force attracts you.

You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.
– Amy Tan

When the test of your character and moral courage comes – regardless of the noise and confusion around you – there will be a moment of inner silence in which you must decide what to do. Your character will be defined by your decision. And it is yours and yours alone to make.

A person wins for the first time as a ‘celebrity’, second time his work wins. Third time his conduct wins and fourth time his conduct, behaviour and character wins.
– Navjot Sidhu

Behavior forms character.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean
– Lord Chesterfield

Style is the image of character.
– Edward Gibbon

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
– Tryon Edwards

Obedience is a rare commodity among human, it is only available to those who understand the vision of Christ.

When you do something and you pray that no one finds out then your character is questionable.

One who fear for the cause of making everything in the right direction is the right person to reach the heights of characters in his life.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
– John Milton

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.
– Glen Keane

R I S E: Resist insane selfish endeavors.

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I’m not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.
– Corin Nemec

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin.
– Tryon Edwards

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.
– Mark Zuckerberg

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