Character Quotes

“You are far too smart to be the only one standing in your way.”

“One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do-it-yourself project.”

“It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”

“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.”

“Never give nor take an excuse.”

“99% of failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.”

“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.”

“I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.”

“Some make excuses. Others make progress.”

“Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”

“Take responsibility for your own future, or someone else will”

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

“There can only be happiness if the things we think, say and believe are the same as the things we do.”

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”

“It's easy to dodge your responsibilities, but you cannot dodge the consequences of dodging your responsibilities.”

“Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.”

“Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.”

“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

“He that excuses himself, accuses himself.”

“Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things, and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.”

“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.”

“None will improve your lot if you yourself do not.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“You get what you want, when you stop making excuses why you don't have it.”

“The moment you take responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you can change anything in your life.”

“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”

“The work of the world does not wait to be done by perfect people.”

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”

“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.”

“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.”

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.”

“If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.”

“If you take responsibility for yourself, you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”

“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”

“Don't find fault. Find a remedy.”

“There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men, out of necessity, are forced by circumstance to meet.”

“Man is made great or small by his own will.”

“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”

“You Success is simple: Do what's right. The right way. At the right time.”

“There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.”

“No one ever excused his way to success.”

“When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.”

“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.”

“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”

“There is no such thing as something for nothing.”

“There is no way to greatness. Greatness is the way.”

“Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.”

“The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have.”

“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else.”

“Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.”

“So many people can be responsible for your success, but only you are responsible for your failure.”

“Many fear competition or critique from others, but the biggest critic should be the person in the mirror.”

“Hold yourself to a standard higher than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

“There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks.”

“You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.”

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

“It is better to suffer for the truth than to be rewarded for a lie.”

“Your word is your bond.”

“Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it.”

“The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.”

“Under Promise, Over Perform.”

“Success is about delivering on promises - every time”

“A man is only as good as his word.”

“There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.”

“People with good intentions make promises. People with good character keep them.”

“Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.”

“Without trust, words become meaningless.”

“The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

“Strong convictions precede great actions.”

“There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.”

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

“Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.”

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

“To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”

“Right is right, even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it.”

“The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.”

“He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well.'”

“Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.”

“Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.”

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

“Doing the right thing is always right.”

“If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.”

“It's about finding your values and committing to them”

“The superior man thinks only of virtue - the common man thinks only of comfort.”

“To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.”

“Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.”

“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”

“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”

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

“Respect is earned. Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned.”

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”

“You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

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

“A single lie discovered is enough to create doubt in every truth expressed.”

“Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself." - Paul "Bear”

“You will never have lasting prosperity if you don't first have integrity.”

“Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress”

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

“People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.”

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently”

“You can't act like a loser and expect to win.”

“It's better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”

“Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.”

“Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.”

“A person of integrity says what he means and means what he says.”

“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.”

“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”

“A good name is got by many actions and lost by one.”

“Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.”

“Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.”

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

“You can make money without doing evil”

“Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.”

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

“The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.”

“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”

“We can do more good by being good than in any other way.”

“Talent can open doors, but only character and humility can keep them open.”

“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

“Always be a little kinder than necessary.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; it's choosing what's right over what's fun, fast, or easy.”

“The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

“If nothing goes forth from you that can hurt, nothing can return to you that can harm.”

“Good intentions are not good enough. Ultimately we are measured by our actions.”

“Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.”

“Success is the ability to get what you want from life without interfering with another person's ability to get what they want from life.”

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”

“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”

“If we all lived eye for an eye, we'd all be blind.”

“If you have to demand respect, you don't deserve it.”

“Lies travel faster than the truth, but truth always catches up.”

“All doors are open to courtesy.”

“Always remember that every person you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.”

“Success without honor is like an unseasoned dish. It will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.”

“He who loses honor can lose nothing else.”

“You can't force respect, but you can inspire it.”

“I'm nice to everybody, I respect other people. If you respect me, I respect you”

“Never interrupt someone doing something you said could not be done.”

“Do all things with love.”

“The world is good natured to people that are good natured.”

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

“My true religion is kindness.”

“Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.”

“Trust is built with consistency.”

“Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.”

“Character is built through one's deeds and in no other way.”

“To belittle is to be little.”

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

“You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.”

“No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.”

“Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life.”

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”

“I praise loudly; I blame softly.”

“Personal integrity is the most valuable currency that a person can own.”

“Your reputation is what people believe you to be; your character is what you are.”

“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less scoundrel in the world.”

“People tend to associate most with those that they can count on most.”

“No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.”

“Speak with honesty, think with sincerity, and act with integrity.”

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish”

“Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.”

“Be the change you wish to see.”

“True leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.”

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

“You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.”

“A great position entails great responsibility.”

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.”

“He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others”

“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”

“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.”

“To whom much is given, much is expected.”

“Money is time and time is life. When you take someone's money from them, you're taking their life.”

“Example is a contagious behavior.”

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”

“Success is not just about what you accomplish, but what you inspire others to do”

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.”

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

“With great power comes great responsibility.”

“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”

“We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.”

“Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.”

“I always knew I wanted to be in charge of my own destiny”

“Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”

“By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.”

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”

“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.”

“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.”

“See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.”

“The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.”

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

“Anything man can imagine, man can make real.”

“What you are is what you have been. Who you will be is what you do now.”

“Don't be that guy that's laying in that hospital bed going, 'I wonder what would have happened if I tried it?' The worst thing that could happen is that it doesn't work”

“Life doesn't happen to you. You happen to life.”

“Create your future from your future, not your past.”

“I am the creator of history and the one who experiences it.”

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

“Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.”

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying”

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

“Don't wait for permission to build your destiny”

“Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.”

“Whatever you're ready for is ready for you.”

“First comes thought; then organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”

“It's choice, not chance that determines your destiny.”

“True greatness is most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.”

“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.”

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”

“Nobody cares about what you did in the past. Results matter where you are now.”

“Arrogance diminishes wisdom.”

“He who knows best knows how little he knows.”

“A great man is always willing to be little.”

“I have tried so many things that I thought were true, and found out that I was wrong, that I have quit being too sure about anything.”

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”

“Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.”

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”

“The best leaders are humble enough to admit their mistakes and strong enough to correct them.”

“Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.”

“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

“If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.”

“Always remember that so-called negative feedback is often love in disguise.”

“Always take your job seriously; never yourself.”

“Pride builds walls - humility builds bridges.”

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”

“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.”

“A wise man is humble, knowing that there is always more to learn.”

“Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn't give you credit.”

“Men who know little say much - men who know much say little.”

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

“'President Lincoln, you need to destroy your enemies.' 'Madame, when I make my enemies my friend, have I not destroyed my enemies?'”

“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”

“Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.”

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”

“It's not the one who makes the mistake that can be erased, it's the mistake itself that must be erased.”

“Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.”

“Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.”

“Life is too short for long-term grudges”

“Don't get even. Get better.”

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”