Motivational Quotes

Character

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

Maritain, Jacques

2.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

3.

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

4.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

5.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

6.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

7.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

9.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

10.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

13.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

14.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

15.

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

16.

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

19.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

20.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

21.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

22.

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

Collins, Marva

23.

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

24.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

25.

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

Thackeray, William M.

26.

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.

27.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

28.

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

Hall, Manly

29.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.

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

31.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

36.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

38.

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

Baldwin, Faith

39.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

40.

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

41.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

42.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

43.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

44.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

45.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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.