Character Quote Quotes

“Once you show someone your true colors it is impossible to paint over them.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“To see a man’s true colors, tell him you’re saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman’s true colors, tell her you’re poor.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Actions - not thoughts or intentions - were the way to judge others.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“Before you look for dirt in people, look for treasure.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“You may turn every house in your neighborhood into a charity center, you may fill the land with soup-kitchens, but the misery of humans will still continue to exist until the character of humanity changes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas

“We are all artists; painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“With every passing day, we add a page to our personal story, an illustrative script that casts our character shaped by an implacable external environment and fashioned by our supple state of inwardness.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“How we respond to tragedy is the hallmark of character. Suffering a great loss places us at a spiritual milepost. The wind of our souls can either sour and wither or rejoice and thrive.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The real strength of a man is not in the size of his muscles, but in the size of his heart.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“An exceptional Sensei has traits such as patience and integrity. Otherwise, natural fighting ability, cruelty and aggressive behavior may be observed in most animal predators.”
― Soke Behzad Ahmadi, CHOKI MOTOBU Original MMA Fighter

“The poorest man you can marry is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks character.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you want the world to know how truly beautiful you are, love everyone.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“You are a product of your environment, but to be great your environment has to be a product of you.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“To some strength is measured in numbers but to me strength is measured in character.”
― Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army

“Lack of credibility slays your character”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“None of us commences life utterly alone. We each carry within our granular mass the protoplasm residue of past generations’ ideas, customs, values, infatuations, prejudices, ethics, and mores. The lees wrought from our seedlings contribute to the social order that oversees a newborn’s future. How we conduct ourselves in the here and now emulates our heritage, delineates the parameters of the present culture, and sets the embryonic stage for the emergent ethos of our future and for the generations of people whom we will never meet.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“When people realized I’m strong, some of them appeared to be morons who automatically assumed it meant they might feel free to “beat” me as hard as they liked to, supposing it had to be fine with me.”
― Sahara Sanders, Indigo Diaries: A Series of Novels

“The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“The collective ability of that pair to deny the most natural and laudable instincts a being may possess, and insist instead that nocturnal marauding makes them immune from the yearnings of ordinary unmasked humanity—some days, one is truly moved to throttle them.”
― Chris Dee, Polishing Silver: The Journal of Alfred Pennyworth

“A tree’s nature does not change because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“We employ education and the convictions gained through the intermeshing of personal experiences and fresh ideas to establish the configuration of our being that in actuality was our mysterious potentiality from the very inception of our birth.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Pleasure and Pain participate equally in moulding character.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Words let you know what is in someone’s mind, deeds let you know what is in someone’s heart, and character lets you know what is in someone’s soul.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Humility is a powerful, grounding force, if we'll allow its rightful place in our lives. It is not haughty or boastful or proud. It centers & grounds us in our wisdom, while gently reminding us of all we still have to learn. It dismantles our ego, while opening our hearts. It builds bridges instead of walls. It unified rather than divides.”
― Sharon E. Reed, Walking the Heart Path: Bite-Sized Bits of Wisdom on Living & Leading from the Inside out

“In thoughts, be wise. In speech, be cautious. In sentiment, be positive. In actions, be prudent.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Sound character, integrity, purity, high ethical and moral standards are foundations of effectiveness in leadership.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“Character modification requires active participation in challenging new experiences, but without reflection upon our encounters in life and the purposeful alteration in our base philosophy new experiences alone will not result in core personality changes. Our thoughts become our habits, and our habits reveal our character. Only by thinking and acting differently will a person attain the quality of character that they seek.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Strength of character is a muscle that you develop, as you start to live in congruence with the values you hold dear.”
― Sravani Saha Nakhro

“My position is for one to be thought of as a CHARACTER is totally different from one having CHARACTER.”
― Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army

“Hard times define one's character.”
― Ken Poirot