Motivational Quotes

Character

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

- Akhenaton

Best Quotes about Character

1.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

2.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

3.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

4.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

5.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

6.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

7.

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

8.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

9.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

10.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

11.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

12.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

13.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

14.

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

15.

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

16.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

17.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

18.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

19.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

20.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

22.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

24.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

25.

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

26.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

27.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

28.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

29.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

30.

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

31.

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

32.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

34.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

35.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

36.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

37.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

38.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

40.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

41.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

42.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

43.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

45.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

46.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

47.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

48.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

49.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

50.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van