44 Character quotes that'll help you change for the better

44 Character quotes that will help you transform for the better. Here are the best character quotes to read from famous authors that will inspire you positively. Character is what makes you different or unique from other people around you, the sum of all the qualities you have as an individual, and it also shows the kind of person you are. May these quotes about character help and motivate you to become the best version of you that you can be, having a good personality or individuality that will become a good influence on others also. Share these character quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.

1. People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back. – Abigail Van Buren

3. Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past. – Fred Rogers

4. Character is much easier kept than recovered. – Thomas Paine

5. I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die, I will be myself. – Charlotte Bronte

6. Choices determine character. – Brandon Mull

7. You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants. – Cassandra Clare

8. Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions. – Myles Munroe

9. You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. – Cassandra Clare

10. Character, the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life, is the source from which self-respect springs. – Joan Didion

11. Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character. – Dr. Wayne Dyer

12. Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretense, it is a journey to self realization. – Michael Bassey Johnson

13. Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. Focus on your character, not your reputation. Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes. – Roy T. Bennett

15. When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character. – W.Somerset Maugham

16. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. – Albert Schweitzer

17. If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself. – D.L. Moody

18. On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character. – Ellen J. Barrier

19. Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness. – R.J. Palacio

20. One’s character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can’t swim back. – Wendelin Van Draanen

21. There was a saying that a man’s true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory. – Alison Goodman

22. People don’t change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character. – Chad Kultgen

23. I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood. – Ludwig Feuerbach

24. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. – John Wooden

25. Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. – Ann Landers

26. Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures – character. – Harry Truman

27. 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. – D.L. Moody

28. To measure the man, measure his heart. – Malcolm Forbes

29. Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us? – Cornelia Funke

30. We cannot live better than in seeking to become better. – Socrates

31. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. – James Allen

32. A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know about him. – Walter Mosley

33. Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words. – Mahatma Gandhi

34. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. – Martin Luther King Jr.

35. The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul. – David O. McKay

36. What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you. – Wayne Dyer

37. Sometimes we fight who we are, struggling against ourselves and our natures. But we must learn to accept who we are and appreciate who we become. We must love ourselves for what and who we are. – Harley King

38. Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. – Bruce Lee

39. Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. – Virginia Woolf

40. People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn’t change. – Sandra Brown

41. Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution. – Erin McCarthy

42. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. – Hermann Hesse

43. A man with no enemies is a man with no character. – Paul Newman

44. Don’t destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won’t have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases. – Michael Bassey Johnson