Character Quotes
For Your Personal Development

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These inspiring character quotes illustrate what it takes to have character for success and winning. Your character can be your biggest liability. It can pull you down and keep you down. The motivation quotes collected here will help you to develop winning character traits.

If you are going to achieve your dreams you need to think about where you are in relation to where you are going. This principle applies just as much, if not more, in the area of personal leadership.

You need to lead yourself to develop the characteristics or traits of a winner. Personal leadership and private victory come before leading others and public victory. You cannot have good success without personal mastery. Yes, there is such a thing as bad success.

Look through and think about these characteristics of winners. Study any person that ever achieved anything great, they had these traits in one way or another. Success doesn’t come by chance, it comes by discipline. Success is not some mysterious thing out there that picks some for greatness and leaves others to mediocrity. Success is a choice.

Decide today to develop yourself and program yourself for success. Develop these winning characteristics and you will win.

Inspiring Character Quotes

• "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

• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." Albert Einstein

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

• "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

• "Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them." Napoleon Bonaparte

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

• "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

• "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character." Heraclitus

• "Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do." William Henry Channing

• "Let us not say, Every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, Every man is the architect of his own character." George Dana Boardman

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

Building Blocks Of Character

Other than these character quotes ad those below this image, click on the words below to get to the appropriate quotes relating to that topic - these are the major building block of a winning character.

More Character Quotes

• "You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." Henry David Thoreau
  

• "Reputation is for time; character is for eternity." J. B. Gough

• "Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right path, the the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." Anne Frank

• "The essential thing is not knowledge, but character." Joseph Le Conte

• "Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life." John C. Geikie

• "Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone." Cyrus A. Bartol

• "Character is what you think in the dark." Dwight L. Moody

• "Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success." John Hays Hammond

• "Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times." Voltaire

• "It is of little traits that the greatest human character is composed." William Winter

• "Character is perfectly educated will." Novalis

• "Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time." Elbert Green Hubbard

• "Character is, in the long run, the decisive factor in the life of individuals and of nations alike."Theodore Roosevelt

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