Best Inspirational Character Quotes

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

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.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.

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.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.