Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is victory organized.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

2.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

3.

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

Karr, Alphonse

4.

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

5.

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.

6.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

8.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

9.

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

Thurber, James

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

13.

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

14.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

16.

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

Howell, Harry

17.

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

Peter The Great

18.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

20.

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

Baldwin, Faith

21.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

22.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Estrange, L.

26.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

27.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

28.

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

29.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

30.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

31.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

34.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

35.

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

Angelou, Maya

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

40.

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

Marie Leneru

41.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

42.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

43.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

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

Proverb

45.

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.