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Looking for deep character quotes? This focused collection gathers 24 of the best character quotes in a deep spirit, drawn from our full character collection. Tap Copy to save your favourites.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

— Thomas Edison

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

— Abraham Lincoln

Action expresses priorities.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

— Epictetus

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

— Cicero

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

— Henry David Thoreau

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

— Rumi

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

— William Wordsworth

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

— Immanuel Kant

What you are will show in what you do.

— Thomas Edison

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

— Samuel Johnson

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

— Plato

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

— Anne Frank

Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching.

— C. S. Lewis

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

— Immanuel Kant

Compassion is the basis of morality.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

— Abraham Lincoln

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