Inspirational Character Quotes

All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life. ~ Charles Stanley

If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can create a brilliant history of triumph that will shine forever. That is what makes life so exciting and enjoyable. In any field of endeavour, those who overcome hardships and grow as human beings are advancing towards success and victory in life. ~ Daisaku Ikeda

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power. ~ Sathya Sai Baba

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job. ~ Zig Ziglar

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Character is perfectly educated will. ~ Novalis

A clown on a throne is still a clown. A king in rags is still a king. ~ C. JoyBell C.

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character. ~ Joseph LeConte

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be,
Your character is what you really are ~ John Wooden

Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character, - but she always pays. ~ William George Jordan

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. ~ Daniel Webster

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life. ~ Cunningham Geikie

I do. That is character! ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Faith by its very nature must be tried... what God does with our faith must be something like workouts. He sees it to that our faith gets mushed and pulled, stretched and pounded, taken to it's limits so its limits can expand... If it doesn't get exercised, it becomes like a weak muscle that fails us when we need it. ~ Jan Karon

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hiding white lies only causes
anxiety and low self- esteem.
Melissa Mae Palmer
(on living with a mysterious illness and not telling a soul) ~ Melissa Mae Palmer

I am the creation of love.
I am the source of love.
I am the beginning of love.
I like to vanish in love. ~ Debasish Mridha

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires. ~ John Cleese

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out. ~ Sidney Sheldon

loosing character is not easy, behind lots of hard work ~ Sakhiabbas

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are a bunch of practical jokers who meet somewhere and decide to have a contest. They invent a character, agree on a few basic facts, and then each one's free to take it and run with it. At the end, they'll see who's done the best job. The four stories are picked up by some friends who act as critics: Matthew is fairly realistic, but insists on that Messiah business too much: Mark isn't bad, just a little sloppy: Luke is elegant, no denying that; and John takes the philosophy a little too far. Actually, though, the books have an appeal, they circulate, and when the four realize what's happening, it's too late, Paul has already met Jesus on the road to Damascus, Pliny begins his investigation ordered by the worried emperor, and a legion of apocryphal writers pretends also to know plenty ... It all goes to Peter's head; he takes himself seriously. John threatens to tell the truth, Peter and Paul have him chained up on the island of Patmos. ~ Umberto Eco

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it! ~ Maya Angelou

In August of 1998, I completed Seize the Night, the sequel to my novel Fear Nothing, one of many of my books in which a dog is among the cast of principal characters. Every time I wrote a story that included a canine, my yearning for a dog grew. Readers and critics alike said I had an uncanny knack for writing convincingly about dogs and even for writing from a dog's point of view. When a story contained a canine character, I always felt especially inspired, as if some angel watching over me was trying to tell me that dogs were a fundamental part of my destiny if only I would listen. ~ Dean Koontz

Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation. Foods of the green vibration are all green fruits and green vegetables. ~ Tae Yun Kim

I was made to be wild, wicked and free, to carve out my own crazy destiny, to find a place in this world where I can be the most authentic version of me. ~ Christy Ann Martine

The path of light is the path of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep doing good deeds long enough and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself. ~ Louis Auchincloss

They communicated without words from the most primitive part of the soul. I remembered her laughing about this, saying that she felt like an animal, and how she realized that we are less human in our times of greatest love and greatest fear. ~ Christy Lefteri

A key that can open many locks is called a master key, but a lock that can be opened by many keys is a shitty lock ~ Unknown

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. ~ Jean Paul

But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also, with acting and dancing I portray a predetermined character and story for the most part, with music I have the creative freedom to create a song on a whim with whomever I choose and at whatever time I choose to do it. It's more liberating artistically and that's why I've stuck with it. It's a good balance to be able to portray a character and also be myself in avenues that I'm passionate about. ~ Alyson Stoner

For success, focus has utmost importance, but distraction is disastrous. ~ Debasish Mridha

Fear is your brains way of protecting you,
overcoming fear is the souls way of loving you ~ Steven Aitchison

Well, it is to be confessed that the cold of warm climates always has a peculiarly aggravating effect on the mind. A warm region is just like some people who get such a character for good temper, that they never can indulge themselves even in an earnest disclaimer without everybody crying out upon them, "What puts you in such a passion?" &c. So Nature, if she generally sets up for amiability during the winter months, cannot be allowed a little tiff now and then, a white frost, a cold rain-storm, without being considered a monster. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

There's no fool
​like an illiterate fool. ~ A.J. DeJong

As a young filmmaker, I shot a lot of stuff because I wanted to make sure that I got everything, but now I've gotten much more precise with my shooting. Editing is a whole other layer because then, sometimes you realize characters don't even need to say this or that. It becomes an issue of exposition, and over-explaining something. In the script, I'd reinforce certain things about what I wanted people to know two or three times, but in the editing room, I'd be like, "I only need to say this once, maybe twice." ~ Storm Saulter

Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth. ~ Amit Ray

So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously: attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain. ~ Benjamin Thompson

He knows that in leadership cleverness is not as important as content, that charisma and dash are not as vital as character and doctrine. ~ Neal A. Maxwell

Fall in love with someone who can dance with your demons, embrace your madness, and set fire to your soul! ~ Avijeet Das

Our circumstances are not an accurate reflection of God's goodness. Whether life is good or bad, God's goodness, rooted in His character, is the same. ~ Helen Grace Lescheid

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live
undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are
my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks
we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly. ~ Oscar Wilde

Blinking, twinkling, burning bright
Are all the stars that light the night.
Dippers, Ursa's and Orion too,
But don't forget the star in you. ~ Paul The Astronaut

You're right, we both have been working on these films [Kung Fu Panda] forever and we know these characters so well that literally we will react to the same note in the same way. We will have the same answer most of the time. ~ Jennifer Yuh Nelson

And, for any performer, to be able to go deep into character is fantastic. In film you only get to do that if you're the leading character. But in television you get 18 hours to really test the audience and take them to the edge of how far they will go with this character. I can step over this line and I love that. ~ Cillian Murphy

Feel the pain. Feel the pleasure. As long as I'm living, I will enjoy every experience that I can. Happiness, glee, passion, peace, fear, pain, I want to feel it all, good or bad. I want to live, not in monotony, in utter craziness. I'm living not dying. ~ Avina Celeste