171 Quotes About Character-building

An animal without character is merely animal, but a human without character is worse than animal.

She sought to be eloquent in her garments, and to make up for her diffidence of speech by a fine frankness of costume

It’s not what you have, but who you are that counts.

Yes life is even hard for me, I can't complain because each hardship is a battle I must engage and each victory is an accomplishment I must re-engage over and over again. Nobody has it simple or easy but it becomes easy if you understand that temporary set backs and character building moments are part of life.

And that is why novels, even when they are about wicked people, can solace us: they suggest a more comprehensible and thus more manageable human race, they give us the illusion of perspicacity and of power.

Failures make character, not success.

The only measure of judging a human being is through that person’s character, because character is not determined by race, religion, gender or social status. And one who recognizes this simple fact of human life behaves the same with the scientist, the janitor and the sex-worker.

If your nationality is lost, nothing is lost – if your religion is lost, nothing is lost – if your ethnicity is lost, nothing is lost – but if your character is lost, then you are more lost than Donald Trump.

It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.