Motivational Quotes

Character

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

- Babson, Roger

Best Quotes about Character

1.

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

2.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

3.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

4.

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

Abraham Lincoln

5.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

6.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

7.

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

8.

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

9.

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

10.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

12.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

14.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

15.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

16.

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

17.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

19.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

21.

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

22.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

23.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

24.

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

25.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

26.

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

27.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

28.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

29.

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.

30.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

31.

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

32.

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

Leneru, Marie

33.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

34.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

35.

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

36.

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

Hall, Manly

37.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

38.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

40.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

42.

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

43.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

45.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

47.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

48.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

49.

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

50.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David