Top 200 Character Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.”

— Sam Ewing

102. “It is better to be alone than in bad company.”

— George Washington

103. “Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.”

— George R.R. Martin

104. “If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.”

— Taylor Swift

105. “When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

106. “Having a personality of caring about people is important. You can’t be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.”

— Richard Branson

107. “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.”

— J.K. Rowling

108. “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”

— Ronald Reagan

109. “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

— Henry David Thoreau

110. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”

— Seneca

111. “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”

— Princess Diana

112. “It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.”

— Marcus Aurelius

113. “If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

114. “Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.”

— Bill Belichick

115. “Habits change into character.”

— Ovid

116. “The rest, is silence.”

— William Shakespeare

117. “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”

— Catherine of Siena

118. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”

— Aldous Huxley

119. “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”

— Mark Twain

120. “I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”

— Maya Angelou

121. “The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”

— Zig Ziglar

122. “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

— J.K. Rowling

123. “The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.”

— Billy Graham

124. “Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.”

— S. E. Hinton

125. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

— Virginia Woolf

126. “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus

127. “Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.”

— Horace Greeley

128. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

— Jane Austen

129. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”

— Maya Angelou

130. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

— Harper Lee

131. “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

132. “Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.”

— John C. Maxwell

133. “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”

— Dale Carnegie

134. “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

— Buddha

135. “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”

— Aristotle

136. “Don’t ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what.”

— Michael Scott

137. “Forgiveness is the final form of love.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

138. “Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.”

— Helen Keller

139. “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”

— Will Smith

140. “True friends never become apart; maybe in distance but never in heart.”

— Helen Keller

141. “I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.”

— Napoleon Hill

142. “Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”

— William Shakespeare

143. “A man’s character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.”

— John Cena

144. “Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first.”

— Robin S. Sharma

145. “You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.”

— John Wooden

146. “Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide.”

— Zig Ziglar

147. “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

— Abraham Lincoln

148. “Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”

— Confucius

149. “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

150. “Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”

— Barack Obama