3 Impactful 93-Character Quotes

In a world where brevity often conveys power, a well-crafted quote can inspire, motivate, and provoke thought in just a few words. The challenge lies in capturing profound insights or emotions within the constraints of mere characters. Today, we delve into a curated collection of impactful 93-character quotes that perfectly embody this art form. These quotes have been meticulously selected for their ability to evoke reflection and resonate with both the mind and heart. Join us as we explore how each of these compact gems holds its own weight in meaning, offering clarity and inspiration in the digital age.

1. “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” - John Wooden

2. “There is a very great difference — is there not? — between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference between a man's reputation and a man's character, for reputation is what men think and say of us, while character is what God and the angels know of us.” - Price Collier

3. “We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.” - Michael Ondaatje

4. “All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.” - Diane Setterfield

5. “You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.” - Paul McCartney

6. “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters” - Albert Einstein

7. “Character is plot, plot is character.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

8. “If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

9. “Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.” - Omar Bradley

10. “Thought creates character.” - Annie Bessant

11. “Character is not made by crisis. It is only exhibited.” - Robert Freeman

12. “Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.” - Wayne W. Dyer

13. “It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.” - Edmund Burke

14. “A man with no enemies is a man with no character.” - Paul Newman

15. “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” - James A. Michener

16. “I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.” - Ruth Rendell

17. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” - Maya Angelou

18. “When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.” - Edna O'Brien

19. “People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.” - George Eliot

20. “There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life ... the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.” - Lionel Shriver

21. “You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.” - Robert Kirkman

22. “A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.” - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

23. “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

24. “I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out.” - Nancy E. Turner

25. “Seorang perempuan yang sifatnya jahat tidak pantas diperlakukan sebagai seorang perempuan. [Ramayana Mahabharata, hal. 33]” - R.K. Narayan

26. “Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.” - Virginia Woolf

27. “A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.” - James Allen

28. “My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting form.” - Ben Robertson

29. “Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.” - Hugo Hamilton

30. “He came to chat with me the day of my being discharged, advising that I not stay at the dog fight until the last dog was dead. I was a kid and made little counsel. Now that I am a bigger kid, I see the value--belatedly--added. Yet I also see the loss of life in the protecting, first of all, of oneself. Better to give oneself away. Dead f*ck the dog and so on.” - Gordon Lish

31. “There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.” - Jodi Picoult

32. “Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.” - David O. McKay

33. “In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character.” - Noah Webster

34. “A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.” - Charlie Chaplin

35. “Work on your character, let life fall into place.” - Sonia Rumzi

36. “Trust is always a good idea. For someone else.” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

37. “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” - Norman Schwarzkopf

38. “And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradoxFor he is everything and nothingHero and foolPotent, helplessAnd with one word of truth or treacheryHe will save or damn the earthBecause he is mad and saneCold and passionateLost and found” - Stephen R. Donaldson

39. “You tell me that you sometimes view the dark side of your Diana, and there no doubt you discover many Spots which I rather wish were erased, than conceal'd from you. Do not judge by this, that your opinion is an indifferent thing to me, (were it so, I should look forward with a heavey Heart,) but it is far otherways, for I had rather stand fair there, and be thought well of by Lysander than by the greater part of the World besides. I would fain hope that those faults which you discover, proceed more, from a wrong Head, than a bad Heart. E'er long May I be connected with a Friend from whose Example I may form a more faultless conduct, and whose benevolent mind will lead him to pardon, what he cannot amend.” - Abigail Adams

40. “The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it” - D.L. Moody

41. “Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire. That's why black magic is so easy—it comes from lust, from fear and anger, from things that are easy to feed and make grow. The sort I do is harder. It comes from something deeper than that, a truer and purer source—harder to tap, harder to keep, but ultimately more elegant, more powerful. My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour. It came from my love of a good steak, from the way I would sometimes cry at a good movie or a moving symphony. From my life. From the hope that I could make things better for someone else, if not always for me. Somewhere, in all of that, I touched on something that wasn't tapped out, in spite of how horrible the past days had been, something that hadn't gone cold and numb inside of me. I grasped it, held it in my hand like a firefly, and willed its energy out, into the circle I had created with the spinning amulet on the end of its chain.” - Jim Butcher

42. “True worth is being not seeming” - Alice Cary; Nobility

43. “The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.” - William Shakespeare

44. “What would you tell her about me?”He did not just ask that.“You did not just ask that.” She chuckled.“I’m serious,” he smiled.“Very well, if you must know, I would say that you are arrogant and foolish, too handsome for your own good and far too cognizant of your own intellect. Unbending, unsympathetic, dogmatic, pig-headed—”“Handsome?” he interrupted, unable to keep the smile from his face. “And intelligent?”“Don’t forget arrogant.” - Leigh LaValle

45. “It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so.” - C.S. Lewis

46. “There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that person who you once were is merely a fond acquaintance, or a beloved character from a storybook. This is how memory becomes nostalgia. They are two very different things - the same way that a person is different from a photograph of a person.” - Dan Chaon

47. “If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.” - Marcus Aurelius

48. “Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.” - John Wooden

49. “Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” - Criss Jami

50. “Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” - Criss Jami

51. “…I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line.” - L.M. Montgomery

52. “Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

53. “It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.” - Wendelin Van Draanen

54. “You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.” - Cassandra Clare

55. “He lives who dies to win a lasting name.” - Henry Drummond

56. “It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.” - Arnold Bennett

57. “Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?” - Nora Roberts

58. “silence is not weakness and decency is not pride” - Arthur Machen

59. “Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what to do; without any approach to coarseness, however, or any want of good humour. Anne gave her credit, indeed, for feelings of great consideration towards herself, in all that related to Kellynch; and it pleased her.” - Jane Austen

60. “What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men -- men of prayer.” - E.M. Bounds

61. “(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."-David Levithan (Every Day)” - David Levithan

62. “No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.” - Richard Bach

63. “I've discovered that in life, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are; it's human nature to be judged and to judge others by the blood they carry and the company they keep.” - Mz. Robinson

64. “She, the clear heart'ed soul shall show a small crack (in heart) as clearly as the equally transparent, but dirty rogue can cleverly hide it.” - Prof Priyavrat Thareja

65. “Understanding character is a vital part of the process of finding a relationship partner and developing a strong and vibrant relationship together.” - Susanne M. Alexander

66. “Character is what we do when no one else is watching"~R. Alan Woods [2012]” - R. Alan Woods

67. “What you do is so loud, I can't hear what you say."Anonymous” - Mike Addington

68. “Realize that by hurting your own characters, you are not a sadist. You are not deliberately hurting your loved ones merely to watch them suffer. You’re giving a gift. You’re helping them grow and develop. Your characters take on deeper meaning to become more alive on your pages. They’ll become real.” - James Chartrand

69. “99% of all addicts are liars and thieves. This might sound unfair and even close-minded, but it's the truth. There are some exceptions to the rules, but they are incredibly rare. Most people are no match for their addictions. They will be driven to do things they would normally never have considered all in the name of getting high. Sad, but true. So if you're thinking of trying drugs, keep in mind that all the people you will be dealing with are likely to steal from you and lie to you at your own expense.” - Ashly Lorenzana

70. “A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.” - Anne Lamott

71. “What if God doesn’t keep his promises?” - K. Howard Joslin

72. “Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.” - Christian Baloga

73. “The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.” - Henry David Thoreau

74. “I prefer to suffer than repent because I stand by my decision and capable enough top pay for it Or reap the beauty later.” - Ravindra Shukla

75. “What's in a name?  The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

76. “He was a character.A character who should still be here. Damn it all to hell.He should still be here.” - Lisa Schroeder

77. “...I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin...” - John Geddes

78. “Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.” - Orrin Woodward

79. “There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.” - Sophocles

80. “A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have.” - Wayde Goodall

81. “We largely become what we have observed and respected.” - Wayde Goodall

82. “People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.” - Orrin Woodward

83. “One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.” - Hope Solo

84. “A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.” - George Eliot

85. “First character, then ability.” - Shinichi Suzuki

86. “The viewpoint character in each story is usually someone trapped in a living nightmare, but this doesn't guarantee that we and the protagonist are at one. In fact Woolrich often makes us pull away from the person at the center of the storm, splitting our reaction in two, stripping his protagonist of moral authority, denying us the luxury of unequivocal identification, drawing characters so psychologically warped and sometimes so despicable that a part of us wants to see them suffer. Woolrich also denies us the luxury of total disidentification with all sorts of sociopaths, especially those who wear badges. His Noir Cop tales are crammed with acts of police sadism, casually committed or at least endorsed by the detective protagonist. These monstrosities are explicitly condemned almost never and the moral outrage we feel has no internal support in the stories except the objective horror of what is shown, so that one might almost believe that a part of Woolrich wants us to enjoy the spectacles. If so, it's yet another instance of how his most powerful novels and stories are divided against themselves so as to evoke in us a divided response that mirrors his own self-division.("Introduction")” - Francis M. Nevins

87. “A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you.” - A.R. Voss

88. “For whatever reason, there are people we like and people we don't like. It's hard to say why, and often a difficult opinion to change. Luckily, there's no steadfast rule stating that we must like everyone. But to keep from disliking ourselves, we should develop the good character to treat everyone kindly whether or not we deem them deserving.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

89. “Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is no possibility of spontaneity.” - Ronan Bennett

90. “The Prophet's character was termed tremendous because his concern was for God alone.” - Imam Junayd al-Baghdadi

91. “Every brush stroke on the canvas, every dab of color introduced, the fine textures impressed in the paint—this accumulation of many small acts combines to shape a final work of art.  And so it is with life; each step, each deed, each brief choice builds gradually, day by day, to shape both character and destiny.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

92. “Confession: I don't want everybody to be beautiful, not in that unlined, creaseless, symmetrical way. Android beauty, like it comes out of a test tube. Beauty without blemish or mark. Not only do I not identify with such people, I don't believe in them either. I don't even find them attractive. This is what makes watching television so hard: they don't cast actors anymore, only models. When they make a movie of my life, they'd better cast a character actor in the lead. Don't try to tell me I'm not a character.” - Lisa Samson

93. “You can speak with spiritual eloquence, pray in public, and maintain a holy appearance... but it is your behavior that will reveal your true character.” - Steve Maraboli