Character Quotes

This is a collection of quotes that speak about strength of character and some of the attitudes that come with it.

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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. — Beverly Sills

Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it. — Unknown

You want to look at your purpose in life. You want to find that meaning within. Once you find that meaning within, and you start to express your purpose, that’s when the money starts coming. That’s when you attract it. — Andy Fuehl

In the end it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. — Max Dupree

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. — Pablo Picasso

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. — Debbie Fields

The responsibility for both present and future is in our own hands. If we live right today, then tomorrow has to be right. — Eknath Easwaran

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. — Brian Tracy

Many say I am just one to try. I say I am one less to quit. — Diego Marchi

Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight. — Lance Armstrong

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. — Epictetus

You never fail until you quit trying. — Unknown

The successful man is the average man, focused. — Unknown

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they might have planned for you? Not much. — Jim Rohn

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. — John Cage

One step back does not mean defeated. It just means that you will take the same step forward again but wiser. — Jossie Estrella

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don’t read what they write, don’t ask them what they believe, just observe what they do. — Ashley Montagu

A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. Practice being a “doer!” — Josh S. Hinds

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. — George Horace Lorimer

Self-knowledge is best leaned, not by contemplation, but by action. Strive to do your duty and you will soon discover of what stuff you are made. — Johann Goethe

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse. — Florence Nightingale

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You make have to work for it, however. — Richard Bach

The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven’t yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do. — Brian Tracy

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. — Zig Ziglar

Always listen to the experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it. — Robert Heinlein

Never, never, never, never give up. — Winston Churchill

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. — Thomas Edison

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Gandhi

If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it? — Neale Donald Walsch

Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. — Christian D. Larson

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. — Phyllis Bottome

Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something. — Gene Valvano

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. — Napoleon Hill

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. — Chinese Proverb

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. — Benjamin Franklin

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. — Albert Einstein

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. — John Wayne

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. — Dr. Seuss

Nothing will work unless you do. — Maya Angelou

Do or do not. There is no try. — Yoda