Character Quotes

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It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

- Frederick Douglass

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

- Dale Carnegie

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

- Madame de Stael

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

- George Matthew Adams

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

- Madame de Stael

Character is a journey, not a destination.

- Bill Clinton

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All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

- Andrew Carnegie

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As a man is, so he sees.

- William Blake

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

- Heywood Broun

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The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

- Margaret Chase Smith

The Roots of Violence:
Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice,
Politics without principles.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

- Henry David Thoreau

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.

- Faith Baldwin

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. Jackson Brown Jr.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
[Letter to the US House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, 1952]

- Lillian Hellman

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue.

- Sam Adams

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works. (sermon, October 15, 1826)

- Ralph Waldo Emerson