Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

11.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

12.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

13.

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

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

17.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Hall, Manly

20.

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

Thackeray, William M.

21.

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

22.

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

Seneca

23.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

26.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

27.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Euripides

32.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

34.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

35.

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

36.

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

Karr, Alphonse

37.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

38.

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

39.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

40.

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

Brown, Les

41.

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

Solon

42.

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

43.

Cicero

44.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

45.

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

46.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

47.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

50.

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

Marie Leneru

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