Top 200 Character Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the Cat, ’it doesn’t matter.”

— Lewis Carroll

152. “A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.”

— Charlie Chaplin

153. “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”

— Albert Einstein

154. “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

— Charles Dickens

155. “Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.”

— John Wooden

156. “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”

— Walter Anderson

157. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.”

— Mother Teresa

158. “Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

159. “I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!”

— Theodore Roosevelt

160. “You can’t just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

161. “I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”

— Nicholas Sparks

162. “Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.”

— Marcus Aurelius

163. “Remember it’s OK to be yourself.”

— Richard Branson

164. “Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic.”

— Stephen R. Covey

165. “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”

— Mother Teresa

166. “Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”

— Barack Obama

167. “By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

— Jim Rohn

168. “The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea. It’s the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.”

— Charlie Munger

169. “Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”

— Anne Frank

170. “The opposite of compromise is character.”

— Frederick Douglass

171. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

— Jane Austen

172. “There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.”

— John Wooden

173. “Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former.”

— Lecrae

174. “The real Da’wah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

175. “We are all fools in love.”

— Jane Austen

176. “A Man’s management of his own purse speaks volumes about character.”

— Thomas Jefferson

177. “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”

— Blaise Pascal

178. “You are kind. You are smart. You are important.”

— Kathryn Stockett

179. “Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”

— Thomas Paine

180. “Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.”

— Napoleon Hill

181. “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”

— Maya Angelou

182. “Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love.”

— Erich Fromm

183. “When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance accelerates.”

— Thomas S. Monson

184. “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”

— Thomas Paine

185. “When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.”

— Sylvester Stallone

186. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

— Henry David Thoreau

187. “If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”

— Maya Angelou

188. “A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”

— Mark Twain

189. “I love those who can smile in trouble...”

— Leonardo da Vinci

190. “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

191. “You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.”

— Napoleon Hill

192. “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”

— Ernest Hemingway

193. “All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.”

— Pablo Neruda

194. “Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”

— Heraclitus

195. “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”

— Imam Ali

196. “Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.”

— John C. Maxwell

197. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”

— Aristotle

198. “This above all: to thine own self be true.”

— William Shakespeare

199. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

— Albert Einstein

200. “Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone’s reputation, and you don’t have to talk about what he stands for.”

— Ronald Reagan