Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

2.

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

3.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

4.

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

5.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

6.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

7.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

8.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

10.

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

Guideposts

11.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

12.

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

Merikare

13.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Peter The Great

17.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

18.

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

19.

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

Elihu Burritt

20.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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.

22.

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

Leneru, Marie

23.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

24.

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

Collins, Marva

25.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

26.

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

Aristotle

27.

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

Karr, Alphonse

28.

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

Thackeray, William M.

29.

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

Joan Didion

30.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

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

Gill, Vince

32.

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

Brown, Les

33.

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

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

36.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

37.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

41.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

43.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

44.

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

Mohammed

45.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

46.

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