Quotes and Sayings about Character

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

We can be only who we are; no more, no less.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

It's better to be hated for the person you are, than to be loved for the person you're not.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

Be confident. Too many days are wasted comparing ourselves to others and wishing to be something we aren't. Everybody has their own strengths and weknesses, and it is only when you accept everything you are - and aren't - that you will truly succeed.

Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

If you are lucky enough to be different, don't ever change!

Be yourself! Everyone else is already taken.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

It's f*cked up how people get judged for being real, and how people get loved for being fake.

Someone will always be prettier.
Someone will always be smarter.
Someone will always be younger.
But they will never be you.

Brian: "You're all individuals!"
People: "Yes, we're all individuals!"
Brian: "You're all different!"
People: "Yes, we are all different!"
Man: "I'm not."

It's better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you're not.

It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.

There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
'I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong.'
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you - just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.

I wanted to run away that day, but you can't run away from your own feet.

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

I might not know who I was yesterday or who I'm going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.

You can't change what people are, without destroying who they were.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I stopped thinking the way other people think a long time ago, you gotta think like you think.

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

A good player knows how to win the game, a good character knows how to lose it, while smiling.

We don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.

You're a freak, but what? Do you wanna be normal? Do you wanna be just like everyone else?

Unknown: "I want to be like you."
Marilyn Manson: "If you want to be like me, be yourself!"

I may not be the prettiest, smartest or strongest. But at least I'm me and I don't pretend to be someone I'm not meant to be.

Everything I'm not, made me everything I am

You were born an original, don't die a copy!

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

The message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons
Don't settle for less - even the genius asks questions
Be grateful for blessings
Don't ever change, keep your essence

Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

My style statement is to be myself! Because if you try to imitate someone else, you will end up feeling uncomfortable.

Without daring to make enemies, you have no real friends in the end.

No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Now we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go, "that's baaaaad." Robert Frost said, "Two roads diverged in the wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

Recently I was driving my daughter to school and she said to me: "Mama, I'm the ugliest girl I know. I look like a boy with long hair.' And my brain went to 'Oh my god, you're six. Where is this coming from? Who said this? Can I kick a sex-year-old's ass?' But I didn't say anything and instead I went home and I made a PowerPoint presentation for her and in that presentation were androgynous rock stars and artists that live their truth, are probably made fun of every day of their life and carry on and wave their flag and inspire the rest of us. And these are artists like Michael Jackson and David Bowie and Freddie Mercury and Annie Lennox and Prince and Janis Joplin and George Michael, Elton John. So many artists, her eyes glazed over. But then I said, 'I really want to know why you feel this way about yourself?' And she said 'Well, I look like a boy.' I said, 'What do you think I look like?' And she said, 'You're beautiful.' And I was like, 'Well, thanks!' But I said, 'When people make fun of me, that's what they use. They say that I look like a boy, or I'm too masculine or I have too many opinions, my body is too strong. Do you see me growing my hair?' She said, 'No, Mama.' I said, 'Do you see me changing my body?"
'No, Mama."
'Do you see me changing the way I present myself to the world?"
'No, Mama."
'Do you see me selling out arenas all over the world?"
'Yes, Mama."
So baby-girl, we don't change. We take the gravel and the shell and we make a pearl and we help other people to change, so that they can see more kinds of beauty. And to all the artists here, I'm so inspired by all of you. Thank you for being your true selves and for lighting the way for us. I'm so inspired by you guys. There's so much rad happening right now in music. Keep doing it. Keep shining for the rest of us to see. And you, my darling girl, are beautiful and I love you.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

Underneath my outside face
There's a face that none can see.
A little less smiley,
A little less sure,
But a whole lot more like me.

If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

There are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

People aren't what they say... but what they show.