Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Crisp, Quentin

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

6.

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

Peter The Great

7.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

8.

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

9.

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

Mohammed

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Merikare

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.

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

19.

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

Baldwin, Faith

20.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

22.

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

23.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

26.

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

27.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

28.

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

Hay, Colin

29.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

33.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

34.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

35.

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

36.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Thurber, James

39.

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

40.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

41.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

42.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

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