Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Character

1.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

2.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

8.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

9.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

10.

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

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.

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

13.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

14.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

15.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

16.

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

17.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

18.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Karr, Alphonse

20.

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.

21.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

22.

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

Peter The Great

23.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

24.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

25.

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.

26.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

27.

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

Collins, Marva

28.

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

Leneru, Marie

29.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

30.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

31.

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

Euripides

32.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

33.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

34.

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

Horace

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

40.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

41.

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

42.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

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

44.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

45.

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

46.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

47.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle