Character Quotes

The attribute, character,is one that cannot be borrowed, stolen, or invented by acting but rather by building upon life experiences grounded in the ethics and values that you build on your own. To build on ones character means that you will do what it takes to do the right thing not just the thing that is easiest or demanded of someone else. While others may try to mask their lack of character by prewtending to be what they are not, true character will always come through in the end no matter the circumstances or situation.

Self-esteem is feeling worthy and able to meet life's challenges. It is as essential as the air we breathe, and just as intangible.
Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D.,
If Life Is A Game
These Are The Rules

When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don't contradict your desires.
Rhonda Byrne,
The Secret

When I become committed to do something, I do it. Period. There won't be an excuse good enough for me not to do it. It doesn't matter whether I have made that commitment to someone else or to myself. I said I would do it, so I will.
Larry Winget, People Are Idiots And I Can Prove It!

Being right, defending our positions, takes an enormous amount of mental energy and often alienates us from the people in our lives. Needing to be right - or needing someone else to be wrong - encourages others to become defensive, and puts pressure on us to keep defending.
Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat The Small Stuff

Don't let your modesty get in the way. You deserve every bit of limelight you get. When someone recognizes you, don't self-sabotage and say you didn't do that much. Be gracious and thank the person.
Milo Sindell and Thuy Sindell, Ph.D., The End Of Work As You Know It

Man's being is simple, but his personality is not; the personality is complex. The personality is like an onion - there are many layers of conditioning and corruption, and hidden behind those many layers is man's simple being.
Osho, Intuition; Knowing Beyond Logic

But knowing I need to listen and knowing how to listen is not enough. Unless I want to listen, unless I have the desire, it won't be a habit in my life. Creating a habit requires work…
Stephen R. Covey, The 8th Habit; From Effectiveness To Greatness

Do you want to become the person you always hoped you could be? If you do, don't start by trying to change your actions. Start by changing your mind. Nothing else you do will have as great an impact.
~ John C. Maxwell, Thinking For A Change

People who become more concerned about receiving positive attention can take lack of affirmative feedback personally and read too much into reactions, comments, and facial expressions.
~ Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschener, Dealing With Difficult People

Ordinary people don't spend much time on the extra mile. But who ever said you were ordinary?
Robin Sharma, The Greatness Guide

Become aware of all your behaviors and feelings. Then attempt to determine if they match your vision of yourself, and if that self-image is what others see.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Being In Balance


Virtually anything can be an addiction if we choose to use it as such. Work can even be an addiction, or family, if we use it to excess as a way of avoiding or delaying things that are important to us.
Henry Marsh, The Breakthrough Factor

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein


Character is a commodity that cannot be bought, cannot be stolen, and cannot be borrowed from any other.
Byron Pulsifer


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


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.
H.J. Brown


The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Lyndon Johnson


Character is something no one can take from you when you are true to your values and ethics.
Byron Pulsifer


The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge -
I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers.
John Adams



One thing that can be part of character is vanity; this particular quality is not one to be aspired to and vane people are usually the ones who are liked the least.


The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Thomas Wolfe


There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898


Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
Benjamin Franklin


Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Miguel De Unamuno


Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Joseph Conrad


The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
Henri Bergson


Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.
Jonathan Swift


Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.
Joseph Addison


We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach


There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it
Mark Twain


Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.
William E. Woodward


Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen


Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing: I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
Abraham Lincoln


But rules cannot substitute for character.
Alan Greenspan


The highest qualities of character, must be earned.
Lyman Abbott


Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what a reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Dr Wayne W.Dyer


Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold



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