Motivational Quotes

Character

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about 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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Brown, Les

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

10.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

11.

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

Elihu Burritt

12.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

13.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

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

15.

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

Joan Didion

16.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

17.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Leneru, Marie

19.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

21.

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

22.

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

Reagan, Ronald

23.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

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

25.

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

Lippmann, Walter

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

29.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

30.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

31.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

32.

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

Maritain, Jacques

33.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

34.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

35.

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

Euripides

36.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

37.

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

38.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

39.

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

Taylor, Bayard

40.

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

Thurber, James

41.

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

42.

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

Solon

43.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

44.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

Chambers, Oswald

46.

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

47.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

Guideposts

49.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

50.

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