Best Character Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Manon," said the hunchback gravely, "it's your thoughts that are nasty. This gentleman gave us the tiles we were missing, so every time it rains we should recognize it and give him a little thanks.”

“Tears dry, lessons remain -”

“Things that matter can never be stolen, things that can be stolen, never truly matter.”

“Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul's potential.”

“How to win in life:”

“He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.”

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”

“Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.”

“They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.”

“A compliment about one’s nature is more important because a person has to choose how to behave, whilst a compliment about one’s appearance doesn’t mean overly much because there is no choice involved there.”

“It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.”

“I’ll never understand it—why people find the truth more shocking than lies.”

“By and large, the truth is not merely a fierce battle with ignorance and fallacy, but, first and foremost, a combat with our own preconceived ideas and aprioristic conceptions. ("The hidden sides of his character" )”

“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”

“The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it”

“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”

“Admitting your mistakes doesn’t make you smaller, it makes you fair.”

“If there were no consequences, he would surely chuck his phone at the person pressing the doorbell. But Ran lived in a world shaped by choices and consequences, so he chose to answer the phone. He wanted to believe that he had a choice between the two most unpleasant things that could happen simultaneously.”

“Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.”

“Misery builds character, happiness makes cheesecake.”

“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.”

“Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.”

“For years I've been searching for a homeland, finally I found it in you..”

“It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.”

“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.”

“Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you are pointing a finger at.”

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”

“Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.”

“In youth, it was a way I had,”

“The character of Jesus is the character of God. God would never do something Jesus would find morally reprehensible, so if you can’t find it in Jesus, then you really ought to think twice before you claim you’ve found it in God.”