Top 50+ Famous Character Quotes

Our true character is revealed when we are alone and when no one is watching. So here are few quotes about character I’ve collected in the past!Character of any person is an unique identity of that person. Personality or Character of any person directly influenced by surrounding environment in term of social, economical, cultural etc.

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity - J. B. Gough

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - GEORGE WASHINGTON

Famous Character Quotes

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them. - Proverb

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do. - John W. Holt, Jr.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. - WALTER LIPPMANN

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.- John Wooden

Famous Character Quotes

The way a man plays a game shows some of his character. The way he loses shows all of it. - Author Unknown

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

Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation. - Leon Surmelian

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. - André Maurois

Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't be ultimately changed. It's the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins. - SAM SHEPARD

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow. - Chinese proverb

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

Every man has three characters—that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. - Alphonse Karr

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. - Confucius 

Famous Character Quotes

Personality plays a large role in how a characters sounds. Their voice will reflect that personality and color every line of dialog and internal thought. - Janice Hardy

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity. – Roy L Smith

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. - John Morley

Our true character is that person we become when no one is watching. – Unknown

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.

The great hope of society is individual character. - William Ellery Channing

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. - Albert Einstein

Famous Character Quotes

Fear humanizes us. It’s something we all share as a species and an emotion that our characters should share as well—even the bravest and baddest of them all. - Ava Jae

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. - Zig Ziglar

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

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

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. - Dennis Prager

The key to creating better plots rests in a deeper understanding of character. - Kristen Lamb

Character is simply habit long continued. - Plutarch

Famous Character Quotes

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. - Thomas B. Macaulay

Great fiction is fueled by bad decisions and human weakness. - Kristen Lamb

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln

Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us. - Thomas Paine

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Usually, we combine internal and external conflicts for a richer story. That means we have to understand how our characters approach and resolve conflict. - Jami Gold 

Character is not built in men by hiding them from temptation, it is by teaching them to scorn it. - Emmett P. Le

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