Character Quotes

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.

Live, Children, Dream

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.

Education, True, Goal

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Power, Him

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

Real, Reputation, Tree

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Stream, Develops

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Color, Content, Judged

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas Jefferson

Nature, Strong, Mind

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

Success, Experience, Through

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein

Attitude, Weakness, Becomes

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

Life, Pain, Sadness

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

Others, While, Reputation

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal

Everything, Solitude, Except

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein

Great, Wrong, Makes

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

Love, Success, Faith

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Albert Einstein

Religion, Strength, Emotions

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

Power, Respect, Knowledge

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain

May, Learned, Adjectives

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar

Through, Action, Discipline

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

Great, Strong, Live

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Character is power.
Booker T. Washington

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt

Vote, Depends, User

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

Work, Hard, Turn

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Billy Graham

Health, Nothing, Lost

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

Friends, Choose, Choosing

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

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mahatma Gandhi

Woman, Real, Her

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Strength, Hurt, Feelings

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou

Respect, Struggle, Acceptance

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Experience, Through

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford

Life, Help, Hard

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