Character Quotes and Quotations

Inspirational Sayings and Positive Words

There's never been a better time for character quotes. This collection of inspirational quotations supports wisdom, harmony, and life fulfillment. Use these inspiring words to rejuvenate your inner strength and character as you tackle whatever challenges and problems life throws your way.

Character Quotes

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.  ~  Janis Joplin

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.  ~  Paul Shepard

Character is perfectly educated will.  ~  Novalis

The highest qualities of character … must be earned. ~ Lyman Abbott

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids. ~ Aristotle

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece -- by thought, choice, courage and determination. ~ John Luther

Character is what you are in the dark. ~ Dwight L. Moody

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

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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