36 Empowering Strength Of Character Quotes

In a world that often challenges us to stay true to ourselves, the strength of character becomes an invaluable asset. It's the quiet force that shapes our decisions, fuels our perseverance, and defines our essence. Whether facing adversity or standing by our principles, the resolve to live authentically is a testament to inner strength. This carefully curated collection of empowering quotes celebrates the resilience of character, offering both inspiration and reflection. Let these words serve as a guide and reminder of the indomitable spirit within us all, encouraging you to embrace your true self and navigate life's journey with unwavering courage.

1. “It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit.It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win.” - Jean Webster

2. “Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.” - Elisabeth Gaskell

3. “Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great.” - Alex Harris

4. “Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with.” - Traci L. Slatton

5. “This is my prayer to thee, my lord - strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows. Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service. Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might. Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love.” - Rabindranath Tagore

6. “To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.” - Criss Jami

7. “It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.” - Daisaku Ikeda

8. “At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded."... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.” - Donald O. Clifton

9. “A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.” - Saul Bellow

10. “It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.” - Criss Jami

11. “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

12. “Life has a complex plan that involves you and me.While we dream, work and organize, life makes its own tweaks—and many times circumstances might not turn out as we hoped.But life is not the enemy. It’s not against us. Life provides opportunities for growth and strength of character.Stop fighting against your greatest ally.” - Jaime Buckley

13. “My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same thing about men? (...)Response [by Lady Rectitude]: "Fair sweet friend, have you not yet heard the saying that the fool sees well enough a small cut in the face of his neighbour, but he disregards the great gaping one above his own eye? I will show you the great contradiction in what the men say about the changeability and inconstancy of women. It is true that they all generally insist that women are very frail [= fickle] by nature. And since they accuse women of frailty, one would suppose that they themselves take care to maintain a reputation for constancy, or at the very least, that the women are indeed less so than they are themselves. And yet, it is obvious that they demand of women greater constancy than they themselves have, for they who claim to be of this strong and noble condition cannot refrain from a whole number of very great defects and sins, and not out of ignorance, either, but out of pure malice, knowing well how badly they are misbehaving. But all this they excuse in themselves and say that it is in the nature of man to sin, yet if it so happens that any women stray into any misdeed (of which they themselves are the cause by their great power and longhandedness), then it's suddenly all frailty and inconstancy, they claim. But it seems to me that since they do call women frail, they should not support that frailty, and not ascribe to them as a great crime what in themselves they merely consider a little defect.” - Christine de Pizan

14. “I believe in going with the flow. I don't believe in fighting against the flow. You ride on your river and you go with the tides and the flow. But it has to be your river, not someone else's. Everyone has their own river, and you don't need to swim,float,sail on their's, but you need to be in your own river and you need to go with it. And I don't believe in fighting the wind. You go and you fly with your wind. Let everyone else catch their own gusts of wind and let them fly with their own gusts of wind, and you go and you fly with yours.” - C. JoyBell C.

15. “...My deepest personal reason for staying in Paris is that whatever I have as a character, good or bad, is based on the fact that since the age of four I have never run away from anything however painful or dangerous when I thought it was my duty to take a stand -- the American Ambassador to France upon being asked to evacuate Paris by the State Department on the eve of Nazi occupation of Paris in 1940” - William C. Bullitt

16. “That's it. Love makes us all strong.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

17. “The common mistake that bullies make is assuming that because someone is nice that he or she is weak. Those traits have nothing to do with each other. In fact, it takes considerable strength and character to be a good person.” - Mary Elizabeth Williams

18. “They were amazing, fierce, beautiful children.” - Adam Gidwitz

19. “Elena glanced up at him, taking in his words. “If you get rid of your fear? You know, I never look at you as someone who’s afraid.”“That’s because every time you look at me, I’m looking right back, and the only time I’m not afraid, is when I see you. And I do see you, Elena. I see everything you’ve been through, from so young – how you struggled through it; how you never let it destroy your hope and faith – and I’m afraid of nothing."(Karl and Elena)” - Dianna Hardy

20. “You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.” - Melina Marchetta

21. “I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.” - Andrea Koehle Jones

22. “You've got to breathe! And make the bridge between the top half of your body and the bottom. Between the woman in you who's sweet and tender, and the woman in you who's a bitch.” - Katie Singer

23. “Zadane su nam ulice, mjesta i padovi. Usponi katkad ovise o našoj izdržljivosti.” - Jasna Horvat

24. “Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.” - Marcus Aurelius

25. “A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.” - Marcus Aurelius

26. “First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.” - Aberjhani

27. “Live real strong in union with Christ".~R. Alan Woods [2013]” - R. Alan Woods

28. “The gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.” - Joseph Addison

29. “Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

30. “Any weakness a person may have, is just a strength waiting to happen.” - Sharon Fletcher

31. “Trying is never a waste of energy, giving up is always energy wasted!” - Sharon Fletcher

32. “Patience really is a virtue I don't hurriedly possess!” - Sharon Fletcher

33. “Patience is a waste of good quality time!” - Sharon Fletcher

34. “Reflective listening is where you yell into a canyon and wait for the echo!” - Dr Steven Bottomley

35. “Science is a way of looking at the world without the rose-coloured glasses of ignorance!” - Dr Steven Bottomley

36. “There were two types of survivors in life: those, like her, who found the requisite strength in having once been loved with great intensity; and those who, having not been loved, learned to thrive on hatred, suspicion, and the meager rewards of revenge.” - Dean Koontz